101. [Calder, Alexander] Lipman, Jean / Aspinwall, Margaret.

“Alexander Calder and his Magical Mobiles”.

New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981. Quarto (18.5 cm wide x 26 cm high). 96 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear.

102. [Calder, Alexander] Lipman, Jean.

Calder’s Universe [including the important chapter: “Who is Who in Calder’s World “]. By Jean Lipman with Ruth Wolfe, editorial director.

Second Printing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RUNNING PRESS in cooperation with Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Quarto. 351 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor foxing to halftitle and endpapers only.

103. [Calder, Alexander] Marchesseau, Daniel.

The Intimate World of Alexander Calder. [With 680 Illustrations, Including 200 in Full Colour]. Translated by Eleanor Levieux and Barbara Shuey.

[English edition of “Calder Intime”]. Paris / New York, Solange Thierry Editeur / Harry N.Abrams, 1989. Quarto. 399 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Minor staining to pastedown / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

104. [Calder, Alexander] Marshall, Richard.

Exhibition – Catalogue – “Alexander Calder” – “Sculpture of the Nineteen Thirties”.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988. Octavo. 56 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

105. [Calder, Alexander] Marter, Joan M.

Alexander Calder. With 170 Illustrations.

Cambridge / New York / Port Chester / Melbourne / Sydney, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Quarto. XVI, 302 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

106. [Calder, Alexander] Mulas, Ugo / Arnason, H.H..

CALDER – Photographs and Design by Ugo Mulas. Introduction by H.Harvard Arnason. With compliments by Alexander Calder.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1971. Quarto. 216 pages with 114 photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Former library-copy (with several Withdrawn-stamps). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

107. [Calder, Alexander] Pirovano, Carlo.

Calder – a cura di Giovanni Carandente. [Retrospettiva, Torino, Palazzo a Vela, 2 luglio-25 settembre 1983].

Milano, Electra Editrice, 1983. Quarto. 250 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some staining to dustjacket only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

108. [Calder, Alexander] Prather, Marla.

Alexander Calder 1898–1976.

Yale University Press, 1998. Quarto (27.5 cm wide x 30 cm high). 366 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Mint condition / Still shrink-wrapped.

109. [Calder, Alexander] Prévert, Jacques.

Couleurs de Braque, Calder, Miró. Préface de Jacques Dupin.

Maeght éditeur, 1981. Quarto (23.5 cm wide x 31.3 cm high). 137, 4 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

110. [Calder, Alexander] Sweeney, James Johnson.

Alexander Calder.

First Edition. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1943. Quarto (19.6 cm wide x 26 cm high). 64 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

111. [Calder, Alexander] Sweeney, James Johnson.

“Calder” – Catalogue des Oeuvres exposees. [Du 2 Avril Au 31 Mai 1969] – Fondation Maeght – 06 Saint Paul] / [Avec Texte du Jean-Paul Sartre]. Le texte de J.J.Sweeney a ete traduit de l’anglais par Annick Baudoin, celui de G.Carandente de l’italien par Alain Veinstein.

Fondation Maeght, 1969. Quarto. 226 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

112. [Calder, Alexander] Wilbur, Richard.

A BESTIARY – [One of 50 copies on luxurious Rives-mould, signed by Alexander Calder and Richard Wilbur].

New York, Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955. Folio (24 cm wide x 32.5 cm high). Original Hardcover / Half red morocco, beige buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped illustration to front board. A very fine copy in the original board slipcase with very minor signs of shelfwear to the slipcase only. Spine very sightly sunned. A fantastic book with quotes from Yeats and Kafka and many other writers, illustrated by Calder!

113. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

114. [Castlemartyr Library – Supple’s Court] Churchill, Charles.

Poems by Charles Churchill in Three Volumes with Large Corrections and Additions. To which is added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts.

The Sixth Edition. Three Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J.Wilkes, 1767. Small-Octavo (10 cm x 16.7 cm). Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Charles Churchill, XII, 184 pages / Volume II: Frontispiece-Portrait of John Wilkes, 179 pages / Volume III: Frontispiece-Portrait of William Hogarth, 208 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with gilt lettering and spinelabels. Excellent condition with minor tear to the corner of one of the contents-pages. Interior bright and clean on excellent paper. Provenance: From the library of Edward Supple [Supple’s Court near Castlemartyr, County Cork], with the name “Ed Supple” in ink to the titlepages of each Volume. / Subsequently from the library of Daniel Conner.

115. Caxton, Pisistratus Caxton / [Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer].

My Novel, Or Varieties In English Life.

Copyright Edition. In Four Volumes (bound in two). Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 16 cm high). 422, 380, 339, 501 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorativehalf-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor browning and brittle damage to three pagesof Volume 1. Otherwise excellent. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with a manuscript entry to the pastedown of all Volumes: “Ann Conner – from Aunt Henrietta & Aunt Patience – 1926”.

116. Cervantes De Saavedra, Miguel [Jarvis Edition with an excellent provenance, being from the library of John Fane, (Lord Burgersh) the Earl of Westmoreland].

The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, Esq. [Bound with: “The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra” and an “Advertisement concerning the Plates”].

Second issue of the First Jarvis Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, J. & R. Tonson and R. Dodsley, 1738-1742. Quarto. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, XXIV, (8), I – [XXIV], (interrupted with 8 unnumbered pages: “Supplement to the Translator’s Preface,” on the origin of books of chivalry, [by Wiliam Warburton]), continued pagination [XXV-XXXII], Second Frontispiece (Portrait of Cervantes by George Vertue after G. Kent), V, (2), 355 pages with 28 copperplates (including the two frontispieces). Volume II: XII, 388 pages with 41 copperplate illustrations. In total 69 copperplate engravings, all drawn by John Vanderbank and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht / Vandergucht. Modern Hardcover bindings by an english masterbinder, styled to the 18th century period and with new endpapers that carry the original bookplates / Exlibris of John Fane, (Lord Burgersh) the Earl of Westmoreland. Excellent condition with only minor signs of foxing to the outer margins of the pages. All illustrations in strong and fresh imprint. An excellent set from a famous library.

117. Chalmers, Alexander.

A History of the University of Oxford, including the Lives of the Founders, by Alex Chalmers, with a Series of Illustrated Engravings by J.Storey & J.Greig. / A History of the College Halls. And Public Buildings, attached to the University of Oxford. [With 31 plates / steel engravings (including frontispiece)].

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Oxford, Printed by Collingwood and Co., 1810. Octavo (14.4 cm wide x 21.7 cm high). Pagination: VolumeI: Frontispiece-Engraving of Oxford, engraved title-page, another title-page with a more explicit title, XVI, 260 pages / Volume II continues the pagination: Halftitle, Title, Pages 261 – 486 plus an Index (13 pages). plus 1 page (List of Plates). Original, very decorative, early 19th century full leather with gilt ornament to boards and masterfully rebacked spine with spine-labels. A superior copy of this often deranged and broken publication. A stunning example of british bindery-craftsmanship and with only minor signs of browning and foxing. The best example of this work we have ever seen. Firm, possible to be handled without fear of breaking, the leather smooth. A perfect gift !

118. Chang, Kang-I Sun / Owen, Stephen.

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature [Volume I “To 1375” and Volume II “From 1375”]. Edited by Kang-I Sun Chang and Stephen Owen.

Two Volumes (complete set). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Octavo (16 cm wide x 23 cm high). Volume I: XXXII, 711 pages / Volume II: XXXI, 793 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Both Volumes in absolutely excellent, clen, firm, close to new condition.

119. Ching-Tzu, Wu.

The Scholars. Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang / The Author’s Portrait and Illustrations by Cheng Shih-Fa.

Third Edition. Peking, Foreign Language Press, 1973. Octavo. Frontispiece, 607 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in original slipcase. Unusually Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket. The Volume itself as new, basically unread ! Rare in this condition !

120. 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.

121. Christo & Jean-Claude.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Sculpture and Projects 1961-96. [SIGNED by Christo and Jean-Claude].

Yorkshire, Exhibition Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, 1997. Oblong Small-Quarto (21 cm wide x 15 cm high). 36 pages with illustrations (some in beautiful colour). Softcover / Original spiral bound. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare now with the beautiful signatures of these two landmark-artists of the 20th century.

122. Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum delectu commentariorum. Edebat Josephus Olivetus, Academiae Gallicae XLVir.

Editio Tertia, Emendatissima. [9 Volumes – complete set]. Geneva, Fratres Cramer, 1758. Quarto (22 cm x 25 cm). Tomus Primus (Quo Rhetorica continentur.): XXX, 656 pages / Tomus Secundus (Qui Philosophicorum primus): 14, 674 pages / Tomus Tertius (Qui Philosophicorum alter.): 711, (1) pages / Tomus Quartus (Qui Orationum primus): 683 pages / Tomus Quintus (Qui Orationum secundus including “De Lege Agraria”): 687, (1) pages / Tomus Sextus (Qui Orationum tertius): 677, (1) pages / Tomus Septimus (In quo Epistolae ad Familiares): 656, (4) pages / Tomus Octavus (In quo Epistolae ad Atticum): 667 pages / Tomus Nonus (In quo Epistolae ad Q. Fratrem, &c.): 364 pages plus 303 pages of Index Ciceroniani Quatuor // Hardcover / Original parchment with original marbled paper covered pastedowns and endpapers. Bookplate / Exlibris of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Volume One and occasional some of the other Volumes with some signs of an old, faded dampstain but the set generally in very good, original condition with only minor signs of external wear. Wonderful set from the library of a student to Oxford University. The set is full of wonderful text-vignettes and besides the clear and spacious typography, the majority of the text is in clean condition.

123. Cioranescu, Alexandre.

Bibliographie De La Littérature Française Du Dix-Huitième Siècle.

Three Volumes, Complete Set. Paris, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, 1969. 18.8 cm x 27.5 cm. Pagination: Unpaginated. Volume I: X, [760 pages], Authors A-D. Volume II: [761-1439 pages], Authors E-Q. Volume III: [1440-2137 pages], R-Z et Index [Plus extra: Volume III (Second Edition), [1440-2137 pages], N-Z et Index. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor stains to covers. Very minor foxing to edges. Otherwise, clean, bright and strong binding. The price for this heavy set includes international shipping per Courier !

124. Collins, Wilkie / [Dustjacket – Design by Austin Molloy].

An Ré-Sheod – “The Moonstone” [Gaelic Edition with the rare dustjacket]. Ar n-a thionntódh go Gaedhilg do Mhícheál O Gríobhtha.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Octavo. 591 pages. Original Hardcover with the very scarce original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by Austin Molloy. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying and two closed tears but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely Rare with the dustjacket !

125. Colum, Padraic.

Poems.

First Edition. London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1932. Octavo. VIII, 222 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

126. [Combe, William] / [Thomas Rowlandson].

The Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of the Picturesque – A Poem [plus: “Volume Second”: “The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of Consolation – A Poem”].

Volume One in Fourth Edition / Volume Two in First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Published by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 1813 – 1820. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, [2], 276, plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 31 handcoloured illustrations (including Frontispiece and titlepage) by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson / Volume II: Frontispiece, [1], 277 pages plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 22 (of 24) handcoloured illustrations by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover / Original half leather with original spine-labels and ornaments. Both Volumes with some rubbing but both in firm, original condition. Interior of Volume I with some mild foxing and fingerstaining only but all plates excellent. Interior of Volume II with a tear and loss of paper to the front free endpaper, some mild foxing, one plate and one textpage (page 11) slightly detached and with fraying). Minor wormholedamage to rear board (neglectable). Overall these two Volumes are in very good condition !

127. Connolly, Claire.

Irtish Literature in Transition (1780 – 1830).

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Octavo. XIV, (2), 439 pages (including a thorough Index). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed by Claire Connolly on the titlepage.

128. Cooper, James Fenimore.

The Complete Works – Cambridge Scholars Classic Texts Edition [complete in 48 Volumes].

48 Volumes. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Octavo. c.9500 pages in 48 Volumes. Original Softcover / Paperback Edition. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

129. Cowper, William.

The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple.

First Edition. Two Volumes in One (complete set). London, Printed for John Sharpe, 1818. Small Octavo (10 cm x 16,5 cm). Volume I: Illustrated Titlepage, VI, 108 pages with one additional engraving (″On his Mother’s Picture”) / Volume II: Illustrated Titlepage, IV, 108 pages with three additional engravings (1. “The Negro’s Complaint” / 2. “The Dog and the Water Lilly” / 3. “The Lily and the Rose” / “Drawn by Richard Westall R.A., Engraved by John Romney and Published by John Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1817”). Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

130. [Croker, John Wilson].

An Intercepted Letter from J- T-, Esq. – Writer at Canton, to his friend in Dublin, Ireland.

Fourth Edition. Dublin, Printed for M.N.Mahon, 109, Grafton Street, 1804. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). III, 42 pages. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

131. [Croker, John Wilson].

Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. – On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions.

Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). XXX, 178 pages plus Errata-leaf. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. Tear in Errata-leaf professionally repaired. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

132. Cubillo De Aragon, Don Alvaro.

Comedias Escogidas. [Tomo Primero].

First Edition. Madrid, Con Licencia, 1826. 10.5 x 16 cm. 424 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt text on spine. Faded dampstain throughout. Bookblock slightly separating from binding. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

133. [Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Absolutely scarce and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

134. [Cumberland, Richard] Anonymous.

Henry. By the Author of “Arundel”. In Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P. Byrne, W.Jones etc., 1795. Small Octavo (12 cm x 17 cm). IX, 440, VIII, 411 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather, bound to style of the 18th-century with spine-labels. Housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of Volume Two. Name of Richard Meade to both titlepages.

135. [Daniel Conner Library (Manch House)] – [Ossian] McPherson, James.

The Poems of Ossian, Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. With The Translator’s Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian ; Dr.Blair’s Critical Dissertation; And An Inquiry into the Genuineness of These Poems, Written Expressly for this Edition, by the Rev. Alex[ander] Stewart.

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, High-Street, no year [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Frontispice and engraved Titlepage, VIII, 590, 2 pages. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Binding slightly shaky but still holding. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his name in ink to endpaper.

136. [David Hockney Collection] – Hockney, David.

David Hockney – Collection of rare and important publications as well as an original photograph of Hockney. The collection includes: 1. “Fax Dibujos / Fax Cuadros” / 2. An Original Black-and-White Photograph of David Hockney on archival paper / 3. “The Blue Guitar” – Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso – “The Man with the Blue Guitar” – Wallace Stevens / 4. David Hockney – “A Retrospective” / 5. “Billboards” by Sally Henderson & Robert Landau with an Introduction by David Hockney / 6. David Hockney – “Some very new Paintings” / 7. David Hockney prints 1954-1977 / 8. “David Hockney” by David Hockney (with several interesting newspaper-clippings on Hockney loosely inserted).

Mexico, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, 1990. Quarto (24.4 cm wide x 28 cm high). 120 pages. Softcover / Original spiral bound. Unusually excellent, FINE condition of Fax Dibujos, with only very minor signs of wear. Extremely rare, especially in this condition / [The Hockney Portrait-Photograph, which comes with the FAX Dibujos-publication, is stamped verso with Copyright by Universal Pictorial Press and Agency Ltd. in London and dated in 1976. – Provenance of the Photo: This photograph comes from the private Press-Photgraphs-Collection of irish photographer John Minihan, accumulated during his early years as photographer on Fleet Street, London] / The other monographs on or by Hockney are all in excellent condition. Find the David Hockney-Collection on our website under “Library & Collection”, where you will see a full list, with all books catalogued and with corresponding images.

137. De Bernières, Louis.

Corelli’s Mandolin. [Captain Corelli’s Mandolin].

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1994. 14.5 x 22cm. 437 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, with only very minor signs of shelfwear.

138. [de Man, Paul] Durling, Robert M. / Rosiek, Jan / Weiss, T.[Theodore Russell Weiss] / Hughes, Langston / Levin, Harry.

Collection of five books from the library of Paul de Man and Pat de Man. Three of the books inscribed/signed by the author’s. The Collection includes: 1. Robert M. Durling – The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. [Inscribed by Durling: “For Paul de Man – with fond regards – Bob”] / 2. Jan Rosiek – Figures of Failure – Paul de Man’s Criticism 1953-1970 [Unsigned / Not inscribed] / 3. T. Weiss – The Catch – The Twayne Library of Modern Poetry [Inscribed by Weiss: “To Pat + Paul, for real friendship + a book of their own soon. Ted”] / 4. Edward J. Mullen – Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti [Inscribed by Langston Hughes: “Ma cheri Pat, may this slight token of appreciation for your past (and hopefully) future, intellectual ministrations to your petit frère recall to you fond memories of your peregination. Love, Langston – Chritmas, 1979 (Late, as usual)”] / 5. Karry Levin – Grounds for Comparison [Unsigned / Not inscribed].

Cambridge (Mass.) / Aarhus / New York and others, Harvard University Press / Archon Books / Twayne Publishers / Aarhus University Press, 1951 – 1992. 8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling – Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: “For Paul de Man with fond regards – Bob”.

139. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

140. De Ségur, Vicomte J. A.

Les Femmes – Leur Condition et Leur Influence dans L’Ordre Social chez différents peuples anciens et modernes [Avec un chapitre “Les Grecs”]. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée de l’influence des Femmes sous l’Empire, et de notes historiques, par M. Ch. N***.

Edition originale. Paris, Raymond Libraire, 1820. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 474 pages/ 445 pages avec 2 gravures originale. Relié demi-cuir. Excellent condition !! Tome 1 et 2 (complet). Nouvelle Édition. Paris, 1820. 2 gravures. Bel exemplaire. Couverture et tranches de couverture un peu frottées. Intérieur bon état malgré quelques rousseurs éparses. Titre, Auteur et tomaison en dorés sur dos en cuir marron orné de fleurons. Exlibris Franco Crainz.

141. Deluxe Illustrated Children’s Book – Kipling, Rudyard.

All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H.R.Millar and Charles E.Brock.

First Deluxe Edition (Published simultaneously with the trade edition). London, MacMillan and Co., 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration, X, 670, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original, rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only.

142. Dickens, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher’s advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition.

143. Dickens, Charles.

The Major Works – Unabridged Cambridge Scholars Classic Texts Edition [The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 Volumes].

29 Volumes. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Octavo. c.5000 pages in 29 Volumes. Original Softcover / Paperback Edition. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition.

144. [Dickens, Charles] Barnard, Frederick.

A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens in Colour – From Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard: 1. Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter / 2. Bill Sikes / 3. Mr. Pecksniff / 4. The Two Wellers / 5. Sydney Carton / 6. Mrs. Gamp / 7. Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim [from “A Christmas Carol”]/ 8. Captain Cuttle / 9. Mr.Micawber / 10. Mr.Pickwick / 11. Mr. Peggotty / 12. Barnaby Rudge //

First Edition. London, The Waverley Book Company, no year (c.1912). Folio (34.5 cm wide x 44 cm high (Portfolio Size). 12 Tipped – in Plates on single Folio – Pages inside the original Portfolio-Folder (All pictures ready to be framed). Each image has a detachable tissue-guard with text from Dickens’ stories in which each character is present. Original Hardcover Portfolio with softcover sheets. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Only very minor signs of ocassional foxing.

145. [Dinter, Gustav Friedrich]

Dinter’s Todtenfeier im sächsischen Erzgebirge. Am 23. Julius 1831.

Neustadt, Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1831. Gr.-8°. VIII, 84 Seiten. Originale, bedruckte Titelbroschur. Unbeschnittenes, breitrandiges Exemplar der Originalausgabe mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Die hintere Broschur sauber geloest und etwas angeraendert. Selten !

146. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.

First Tauchnitz Copyright Edition [1st of May 1902]. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. Small Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / Private half-leather of the Haugaard-Family in Denmark with Initials of Erik Haugaard’s grandfather stamped into board and on titlepage. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear, presenting as some rubbing to the spine. With three minor manuscript entries to the last page: “Leest” [Translating from Danish as “Read”]: I. le Juni 1902 / II. 8 Nvbr 1933 / 3. 6 MRTS.1945. Extremely rare, published shortly (only five weeks) after the True First Book-Edition. Rare in this excellent condition. From the private library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator, Erik Haugaard, with his Exlibris to the pastedown. [Tauchnitz edition – Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571].

147. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Last Galley – Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Octavo. Frontispice (in colour), VI, 298, (6) pages. With both illustrations present. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration to front board. Poor but firm condition with endpapers to front and rear perfectly attached. Some some minor staining to some pages. Wonderful collection of short stories by Doyle.

148. [Doyle, Arthur Conan] / Newnes, George.

The Strand Magazine – 23 Volumes in total. With first printings of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” in Volumes III, IV, V, XII and XIII. [Volumes I, II and VI missing] Of the missing Volumes only Volume II and VI contained Stories of Doyle].

First Edition. 23 Volumes (of 26). London, George Newnes, 1892-1903. 8°. c. 13500 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. All bindings firm !

149. [Dryden, John] / [Philips, John] / [Walsh, William] / [Waller, Edmund] / [Hobbes, Thomas] / [Addison, Joseph] / [Yalden, Thomas] a.o. Tonson, Jacob .

The Annual Miscellany : For the Year 1694 Being The Fourth Part of Miscellany Poems. Containing great Variety of New Translations and Original Copies, by the Most Eminent Hands.

The Second Edition. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708. Octavo. [6], 406 pages. Plus 89 pages of Philips’ “Cyder – A Poem”, bound to the rear. Hardcover / Original full tooled leather with new spine-label in the style of the time. The binding is now in protective Mylar. page 405/406 a little frayed and loosely inserted. Complete edition with the wonderful “Cyder” by Philips bound to the rear. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very minor signs of wormhole-damage to the margins. Text beautifully clean. If there was a Frontispiece included to “Cyder”, it is not incldued in this Volume ! A very rare example of “Tonson’s Miscellany”.

150. Dubuffet, Jean.

La botte à nique.

Genève, Albert Skira, 1973. Slim Fpolio Box with Oxtcavo Volume and Slim-Folio Screen-print separate. 112 pages (collation complèt) plus une sérigraphie (Silkscreen: ‘Quatre Figures’) dans une chemise séparée. Original Hardcover in original box with additional folder for the silkscreen. Complete, a fantastic publication ! Some signs of foxing ! Otherwsie in EXCELLENT condition with only minor signs of wear and including the often missing screen-print in the separate chemise. / Edition originale, Exemplaire No.38 des 165 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d’Arches. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de sa sérigraphie présentée sous une chemise à part.

151. Duffy, Carol Ann.

Standing Female Nude.

Third Edition. London, Anvil Press Poetry Ltd., 1989. 21.4cm x 13.5cm. 62 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Carol Ann Duffy: “Best wishes Carol Ann”.

152. [Dufy, Raoul] Derys, Gaston.

Mon Docteur – Le Vin. Avec 19 Aquarelles de Raoul Dufy – Texte de Gaston Derys. [Préface du Maréchal Pétain] / Typographie de A. M. Cassandre.

Paris, Freres Draeger, 1936. Folio (26 cm wide x 32 cm high). 44 pages with 19 aquarelles. / 19 photolithographs of watercolors (18 in colors), plus 1 photolithograph of a drawing (wrappers). Original, illustrated Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

153. [Dunn, Douglas / Gunn, Thom / Heaney, Seamus / Hill, Geoffrey / Kinsella, Thomas / Larkin, Philip / Muldoon, Paul / Murphy, Richard / Paulin, Tom / Raine Graig / Haffenden, John.

Viewpoints – Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden. Douglas Dunn, Thom, Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Tom Paulin, Craig Raine.

First edition. London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1981. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 189 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

154. Durrell, Gerald M.

The Overloaded Ark. With illustrations by Sabine Baur.

Fourth impression. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1959. 14.5 x 22cm. 238 pages, with maps and line-drawn illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition, other than minor signs of wear to dustjacket including small tear to spine, edges very slightly foxed. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

155. Edwards, Gregory J.

The Book of The International Film Poster.

London, Tiger Books International, 1988. Quarto (21.7 cm wide x 30 cm high). 224 pages with Illustrations of Film-Posters throughout the volume (mainly in colour). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

156. Eliot, T.S.

Ausgewählte Gedichte [Selected Poems].

Bilingual Edition: Englisch und Deutsch / Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Der Schutzumschlag minimal angeraendert und mit einigen wenigen Gebrauchsspuren / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

157. Eliot, T.S.

Milton. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy 1947.

Third Impression 1948. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1948. 8°. 19 pages. Softcover / Original brochure. Spine with some minor splitting and minor tears to rear wrapper. Otherwise very good.

158. Eliot, T.S.

The Cocktail Party. A Comedy by T.S. Eliot.

Second Impression of the First Edition ! London, Faber and Faber Ltd., MCML [1950]. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

159. Ellis, William [Provenance: William Splaine and N. Splaine – Bandon Grammar School 1840].

A Collection of English Exercises – Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; And Adapted to the Principal Rules in The Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars. Sixteenth Edition, in which the Translation has been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected and to which are prefixed, Rules for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood. [Including a Preface of Thomas Dix Hincks of Fermoy School, made to the eighth edition in 1818].

London, Longman & Co., 1839. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine – Family in Bandon.

160. Ellman, Richard.

The Use of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Six in the Ben Belitt Lectureship series.

Bennington, VT, Bennington College, 1984. 8°. 25 Pages. Stapled Wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in memory of William Troy”.

161. [Emerson, George Waldo] Brydges, Sir S. Egerton.

Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books. With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. With the articles classed in chronological order under their separate heads.

Second Edition. 7 of 10 volumes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. (Incomplete). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 16 cm x 24 cm. Vol. 1: VIII, LXIII, 432 pages. / Vol. 2: VIII, 450 pages. / Vol. 3: VII, 434 pages. / Vol. 4: VII, 435 pages. / Vol. 6: VIII, 416 pages. / Vol. 8: VIII, 411 pages. / Vol. 10: VIII, 580 pages. Original Hardcover. Volume 1 has dampstaining on boards, front board detached. Volume 8 has small dampstain on front board. All volumes with stronger rubbing, fading on boards, otherwise good condition with content intact.

162. Fallada, Hans / Šváb, Jaroslav.

Obcánku, a co ted ? / [Little Man, what now ?] / [Erste tschechische Ausgabe von “Kleiner Mann was nun ?] Roman. [Z nemciny prelozil Josef Vrbata. Treti vydani Typografickou upravu, onbalku a vazbu navrhl Jaroslav Svab Vytiskla “Osveta”, spolecnost s o.r. ve Valasskem Mezirici pro makladatele Josef Hampla v Celakovicich roku 1936].

Celakovicich / Celákovice, Nakladartel Josef Hampl Knihkupec, 1936. Octavo. 301 pages. Original, illustrated softcover, designed by typographer Jaroslav Šváb, in protective collector’s mylar. First czech edition in publisher’s printed wrappers. Unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Uncut pages. Extremely scarce publication of Hans Fallada’s “Little Man, what now ?” / “Kleiner Mann, was nun ?”. Extremely Rare / Scarce !!

163. Farkas, Lidia / Poharnok, Zoltan / Shires, Frances (Translator).

Sly Mike: A Hungarian Story – With ten original, coloured etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. English Translation by Frances Shires.

No.115 of a signed, limited Edition of 250 copies. Budapest, Published by Dr.George Vajna & Co., (1937). Small Quarto (17.5 cm wide x 23 cm high). 44 unnumbered pages (inlcuding the etchings). The book is signed by both artists, Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Hardcover / Original, embroidered binding. Some foxing to binding but the endpapers intact and the binding in overall very good condition. All etchings in excellent condition. A wonderful, rare example of a very rare book !

164. Freund, Philip / [Jørgen Claudi]

Prince Hamlet.

New York, Bookman Associates, 1953. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 70 pages. Book designed by Richard Miller. Garamond type. Art work by Floriano Vecchi. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing and discoloration to endpapers and edging. Highlighter markings to top edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor). Includes a letter as ephemera (dated 1956) to Mrs Erik Haugaard from Mr. Jorgen Claudi, Assistant Head of the Drama Department of Statsradiofonien. Following Mrs Haugaard forwarding Freund’s play to the department, Mr Claudi, in a damning fashion, declines to broadcast Philip Freund’s Prince Hamlet: “….If a great Danish author had adapted a classic in an inspired, modern form, it could be reasonable to try such eksperiment [sic]. But as the author is a rather unknown American, it is not to be expected that the Danish Radio should broadcast it……”

165. [Fromentin, Eugène] Marsh, Edward.

Dominique. Translated from the French by Edward Marsh.

London, The Cresset Press, 1948. 14 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor foxing to edges, slight fraying to crown of dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition.

166. Frye, Northrop.

The Well-Tempered Critic.

First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1963. 20.7cm x 14cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover in original price-clipped illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Fine in publisher’s cloth-covered boards and like save a small closed tear to the bottom dust jacket. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Northrop Frye to Helen Randell on the title-page.

167. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition in Hardcover, which we offer here, is the much better version.

168. Gallivan, G.P.

Decision at Easter. A Play in Three Acts. [With the printed dedication: To the Men of Easter Week]. With a foreword by Ignatius Johns.

Dublin, Progress House, 1960. 8°. 74 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Popular Plays Series].

169. George, Stefan [Hilsdorf, Theodor].

Originales Portrait des Dichters Stefan George.

Originales Silbergelatine Print / [Silver Gelatine Print] durch den Photographen Theodor Hilsdorf. Im originalen Karton-Umschlag montiert (Originalumschlag der photographischen Kunstanstalt Friedrich Müller, Inh. Hofphotograph Theodor Hilsdorf, Amalienstrasse 15, München – mit kleinem Adress-schildchen) Der Abzug durch Seidenpapier geschützt. Rückseitig mit Stempel und Nummer: (VIII/2) und unter der Photographie mit Bleistift signiert “Müller-Hilsdorf, 1928”. München, Kunstanstalt Friedrich Müller, 1928. Image / Photographie: 21 x 16,5 cm. Sheet / Blatt: 30 x 22,5 cm. Excellent condition. Very rare ! / Sehr seltene Originalphotographie.

170. Gerhardie, William Alexander / Kingsmill, Hugh / Youngman Carter, Philip.

The Casanova Fable. A Satirical Revaluation. Illustrated by Philip Youngman Carter.

Rare, limited and signed first edition (No.20 of only 150 copies). London, Jarrolds, 1934. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. With seven full-page illustrations in colour. Hardcover / Original, spectacular quarter vellum binding. Signed by William Gerhardie and Hugh Kingsmill. Bookplate / Exlibris of Liverpool book-collector, John Raymond Danson, to pastedown. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

171. [Giacometti, Alberto] Bonnefoy, Yves.

“Alberto Giacometti” – A Biography of his Work. Translated by Jean Stewart.

Paris, flammarion, 1991. Folio (25 cm wide x 33 cm high). 575 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in original slipcase. Unusually excellent, near mint condition. Only the slipcase with wear.

172. Gill, Eric.

Autobiography / Quod ore sumpsimus.

Tenth Impression . London, Jonathan Cape, 1944. Octavo. Frontispiece-Self-Portrait of Eric Gill, 283 pages. With eight Illustrations (including the Frontispiece). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition, with the rare dustjacket showing some minro fraying. Occasional foxing only. An excellent version of this classic.

173. [Gill, Eric] MacCarthy, Fiona.

Eric Gill.

Third Edition. London, faber & faber, 1989. Octavo. XIII, 338 pages with 129 illustrations on plates and 58 Figures within the Text. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. A stunning condition of this landmark publication, revealing the paedophile behind the artist and triggering the question: “Can we separate the artist from the abuser ?” [see Guardian – article by Rachel Cooke. April 9th, 2017].

174. Giraudoux, Jean.

Théâtre: Volumes I- IV.

Four Complete Volumes. Paris, Editions Bernard Grasset, 1958, 1959. 13 cm x 21 cm. Vol. I: 315 pages / Vol. II: 329 pages /Vol. III: 353 pages / Vol. IV: 317 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, for example slight rubbing and discolouration to outer spines.

175. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Sämtliche Werke. West-Östlicher Divan: Teil I & II. Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Hendrik Birus.

Two Complete Volumes. Frankfurt am Main, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1994. Teil I: 873 Seiten / Teil II: 1196 Seiten. Illustriert / Some illustrations in black and white. Original hardcover (Blaues Leinen) with the Mylar – Covers but without the slipcase (No “Schuber”). The Mylar-Cover of Volume One with small loss to cover-flap (see image). Important: The Volumes themselves in excellent condition / Sehr guter Zustand der Baende bis auf kleine Fehlstelle am Klarsicht-Umschlag von Band 1 (siehe Abbildung) . [Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker].

176. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

177. Golding, William.

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

178. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

179. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.

180. [Grazzini, Antonfrancesco] Rodini, Robert J.

Antonfrancesco Grazzini – Poet, Dramatist, and Novelliere 1503-1584.

Milwaukee / London, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. 15 cm x 22 cm. XV, 242 pages. Some black and white plates grouped in centre pages of the book. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine sunned. Minor foxing to top and fore edge only. Internal pages clean and bright.

181. Gregory, G. [Reverend George Gregory].

Essays – Historical and Moral [including “Freedom of Speech and of the Press” and “Resistance to the Legislature” an ‘Essay on the Slavery of the Female Sex’ – ‘Of the Schemes asserting an Equality of the Sexes’ and ‘The History of the Female Sex’ and the ‘General State of the Controversy concerning the Inferiority of the Female Understanding’ / “Inquiry how far our commerce would be affected by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in respect of our West India Colonies”].

First Edition. London, Printed for J.Johnson, 1785. Octavo. VIII, 349 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf with original spine-label. Front hinge weak but holding. Minor scuffing and rubbing. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Halftitle present but front free endpaper missing. Text in excellent condition. Exlibris / Bookplate of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Extremely Rare and important publication with early remarks on Gender Equality and a lengthy section on the justification of Slavery.

182. Griffiths, Gareth.

A Double Exile. African and West Indian Writing between two cultures. [Including a chapter: Childhood and Leavetaking: Growing Up in the Caribbean].

First Edition. London, Marion Boyars, 1978. 8°. 205 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition. (Critical appraisals series)

183. [Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

184. Hamsun, Knut.

La Faim. Traduit du Norvegien.

Première Édition originale française / [First French Edition of ‘Hunger’]. Paris, Albert Langen / Nilsson, 1895. Octavo. 322 pages. Reliure privée du 19ème siècle / Original private Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

185. [Hamsun, Knut] Hansen, Thorkild.

Processen mod Hamsun. [Signed by Thorkild Hansen]

3 Volumes (complete set). Denmark, Gyldendal, 1978. Large Octavo. 375, 157, 305 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. The complete set in the original slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the slipcase. Signed by Thorkild Hansen on the endpaper of the first Volume. The rare first edition of this groundbreaking biography of Norway’s most famous writer.

186. [Hansard, Luke].

The Imperial Review ; or London and Dublin Literary Journal [From 1805 on called “The Imperial Review or London, Edinburgh and Dublin Literary Journal”].

First and only Edition. Five Volumes. London, Printed by Luke Hansard, for T.Cadell and W. Davies, in The Strand, also for J.Archer, J. Cooke (Ormond Quay); and M.N.Mahon (Grafton Street, Dublin); A. Edwards (Cork Printer); J. Barry (Limerick) and W. Magee (Belfast), 1804 – 1805. Octavo. Two Annuals (complete for the Year 1804 and 1805) of this Rare Periodical, bound in five Volumes. Year 1804: Volume the First: (January to April, 1804) XII, 654 pages including Index / Volume the Second: (May to August, 1804) VIII, 639 pages including Index / Volume the Third: (September to December, 1804) VIII, 628 pages including Index // Year 1805: Volume the Fourth [Titlepage missing] (January to June, 1805): VII, 733 pages including Index / Volume the Fifth (July to December, 1805): VII, 706 pages including Index. Original Hardcover with new spinelabels. All Volumes in collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Minor browning only. Titlepage of Volume four missing, otherwise complete and the interior in excellent condition. A very rare find, this is one of the more elusive periodicals of the early 19th century, printed just after the Act of Union in 1800 was established and printed by english printer Luke Hansard for publishers and printers in London, Dublin and Cork.

187. Harraden, Beatrice.

Ships that Pass in the Night.

Copyright Edition. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894. 11 cm x 16 cm. 263 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition. vol. 2968].

188. [Hatton, Brian] Cule, W. E.

The White Caravan. Illustrated by Brian Hatton.

London, James Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1914. 15.5 x 22cm. 184 pages. With four colour illustration plates and decorative endpapers. Original, illustrated hardcover in protective Mylar. The binding in unusually excellent and firm condition. Endpapers undsiturbed and perfect. Foxed on the edges and some mild foxing inside. Very minor lesion to the outer margins of 6 pages only. Private gift-inscription and letter included: Inscribed “To Elsie with best wishes from E.Miller”. An original, signed letter by Aunt Miller to Elsie is loosely inserted. All the wonderful colour-plates by Brian Hatton are in place and in excellent condition. An extremely scarce book.

189. Hawkes, John.

The Blood Oranges.

First Edition. New York, New Directions, 1971. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 271 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

190. [Hays, Mary] Wedd, A.F.

The Fate of the Fenwicks – Letters to Mary Hays (1798-1828).

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1927. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 22 cm high). XVI, 248 pages (including Appendix and Index) plus 8 pages of a book-catalogue to the rear “Methuen’s General Literature”. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The spine detaching. The binding otherwise firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor signs of foxing. A very, very rare book !!

191. Heaney, Seamus.

Seeing Things [Signed by Seamus Heaney and with a Beautiful, lengthy Inscription]. With the printed Dedication “For Derek Mahon”.

Second Edition. London, faber and faber, 1991. Octavo. 113 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and beautifully inscribed: “To Christian Tischhauser – with admiration for your commitment to The West Cork Music Festival – Seamus Heaney – 26 June 1996”.

192. [Hecataeus of Miletus] / Klausen, Rud. Henr.

Hecataei Milesii Fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus.

Berlin, Impensis G. Reimeri, 1831. Octavo. [3], Large Fold-Out-Map of the Ancient Mediterranean, titled: “Tabula Europae, Asiae, Libyae”, 324 pages including a thorough Index of Places. Hardcover / Original 19th century boards with new spine and spinelabel, bound to style of the 19th century. New endpapers. The Volume is now protected by Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

193. [Hedouin, Edmond / Boilvin, Emile] Book of Wisdom.

The Song of Songs [The Song of Solomon / Das Hohelied Salomos]. With 26 etchings from designs by Edmond Hedouin and Emile Boilvin. From Designs by BIDA.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. 25 cm x 32 cm. 47 pages of verses juxtaposed to 24 fine etchings, the additional two etchings are the frontispiece and a smaller signet etching to the titlepage. All of the fine etchings mounted to stiff paper. Original hardcover / Decorative quarter morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very few of the etchings with foxing. Very good condition of this extremely rare edition (no.129 of 250 copies only) with only very minor signs of external wear / some rubbing to the binding and bumping to the corners. Some corners very slightly fingerstained and with a hint of a faded dampstain. Name of former owner on endpaper: “Martin F. Jackson – 501 – 5 ave. New York City”.

194. Helps, Arthur.

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon.

Three Volumes (Original Series – Vol. I and II / New Series: Vol. II (of II)). London, William Pickering / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1849 – 1859. 12.1 cm x 19.7 cm. Pagination: Volume I: Book One: VIII, 228 pages / Volume I: Book Two: VI, 324 pages / New Series – Volume II: VI, 370 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decoratiove full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

195. Hemingway, Ernest.

Die grünen Hügel Afrikas.

13.-20.Tausend. Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag Hamburg, 1954. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 250 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dustjacket. Colour photograph of Ernest Hemingway on back cover of dustjacket from ‘Look, New York’. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

196. Hemingway, Ernest.

The Old Man and the Sea. The Illustrations in this special Reprint Society edition of “The Old Man and the Sea” comprise drawings by C.F.Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard.

First Illustrated Tunnicliffe Edition. London, The Reprint Society, 1953. Octavo (16 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). 117 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

197. Hernández, José.

Martín Fierro. Con dibujos de Juan C. Castagnino.

Buenos Aires, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962. Folio. (28,5 cm wide x 39,5 cm). 95 pages with illustrations throughout the Volume Original softcover. Spanish edition. Excellent condition.

198. [Homer] / Pope, Alexander [with William Broome and Elijah Fenton].

[Pope’s Homer in 20 Volumes complete] The Iliad of Homer / The Odyssey of Homer / [Stunning 18th century set of all 20 Volumes of Pope’s Works in their original, contemporary bindings with 26 full-page-engravings plus 1 large, folded Map of Greece, 1 large, folded illustration of the Battle of Troy, 1 folded illustration of Achilles Shield as well as 84 text-vignettes illustrating the Iliad and Odyssey / The engravings also include a frontispiece – portrait of Alexander Pope after a painting of Jean-Baptiste van Loo]. The set of Pope’s Homer is followed by “The Works of Pope – In Nine Volumes, Complete. With his last corrections, additions and Improvements: Together with the Commentary and Notes of his Editor”.

20 Volumes (complete set of Pope’s Homer and Pope’s Works). London, Charles Rivington / A.Millar and others, 1760 – 1766. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). Collation of Pope’s Homer and Pope’s Works follows here: Collation of Pope’s Homer: Volume One includes: an Essay on Homer by Pope, Book I and Book II of the Iliad with two Frontispiece – illustrations, CLI, 175 pages with five Text-Vignettes and one folded map of Greece [and “Phrygia” / Kingdom of Muska] / Volume Two includes: An Essay on Homer’s Battles, Book II – Book VII of the Iliad, 341 pages with five Text-Vignettes and with a stunning, folded map of Troy and the battlefield: “Troja cum Locis pertingentibus” / Volume Three includes: Book VIII to Book XII of the Iliad with ten Text-Vignettes on 304 pages / Volume Four includes: Book XIII to Book XVI of the Iliad with eight Text-Vignettes on 301 pages / Volume Five includes: Book XVII to Book XXI of the Iliad with ten Text-Vignettes and a stunning, folded engraving, showing the Shield of Achilles as described in Homer’s 18th Ilias, [added is a multi-page “Observation on the Shield of Achilles”], on 287 pages / Volume Six includes: Books XXII to Book XXIV of the Iliad with five Text-Vignettes, a two-page Epilogue for the Iliad by Alexander Pope [dated 1720], and “A Comparison between the Games of Homer and Virgil”, an “Index of Persons and Things”, “A Poetical Index to Homer’s Iliad”, an “Index of Arts and Sciences” with “a View of Homer’s Theology” [outlined in the Index are also Music, Geography, Physick, Military Art Astronomy, Architecture, Gymnastics, Agriculture and Rural Arts, Policy, Oratory etc.], on 212, [75], pages including the sectioning of Allegorical Fables in Homer, Allegorical and Fictitious Persons in Homer, The Marvellous or Supernatural Fictions in Homer, Characters of the Gods of Homer, as acting in the Physical or Moral capacities of those Deities [Jupiter, Juna, Apollo, Mars, Minerva, Venus, Neptune, Vulcan], Characters of the Heroes Achilles and Aeneas, Agamemnon, Ajax, Diomed, Hector, Idomeneus Menelaus, Nestor, Priam, Paris, Patroclus, Sarpedon, Ulysses and much more // Volume VII [being Volume One of The Odyssey]: Includes “A General View of the Epick [sic] Poem and of the Iliad and Odyssey, extracted from Bossu” and Book I to Book IV of the Odyssey with eight Text-Vignettes and some minor wormhole-damage decreasing from the titlepage to the end of the Volume, 240 pages / Volume VIII [being Volume Two of the Odyssey]: Includes Book V to Book IX of the Odyssey with nine Text-Vignettes on 272 pages / Volume IX [being Volume Three of the Odyssey]: Includes Book X to Book XIV of the Odyssey with nine Text-Vignettes on 316 pages / Volume X [being Volume Four of the Odyssey]: Includes Book XV to Book XIX of the Odyssey with eight Text-Vignettes on 277 pages with a faded dampstain to the core of the lower book-block / Volume XI [being Volume Five of the Odyssey]: Includes Book XX to Book XXIV of the Odyssey with an Epilogue [″Postscript”] by Alexander Pope, an Index to the Odyssey and an Addenda: “Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice – by Mr.Archdeacon Parnel, corrected by Mr.Pope” with eight Text-Vignettes on 280, [20], 28 pages [one layer ever so slightly loosened, but still attached to the book-block// Collation of Pope’s Works: Volume I includes: Juvenile Poems / Pastorals etc. with Frontispice, Advertisement, Preface, [XLV], 288 pages with an additional two plates [Engravings for “Windsor Forest” and “The Rape of the Lock”] Faded dampstain to the illustration for “The Rape of the Lock” / Volume II includes: Pope’s Translations and Imitations, 272 pages with four plates, illustrating “Eloisa to Abelard”, “The Temple of Fame”, “January and May”, “The Wife of Bath” / Volume III includes: Moral Essays, Essays on Man and Essay on Satire, 362 pages, illustrated with eight plates of which one is detached and loosely inserted in its dedicated space verso page 203 / Volume IV includes: Satires and Epistles of Horace imitated, Satires of Dr.John Donne, etc., 336 pages, illustrated with three plates / Volume V includes the Dunciad in Four Books with a Frontispiece and five additional engravings (of which one engraving only covers half a page), 345 pages plus 14 pages of an Index / Volume VI includes Pope’s Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, [including his Prefaces to Homer and Shakespeare], with 407 pages and one engraving faded dampstain to lower bookblock) / Volume VII includes the first Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters, XXXII, 367 pages / Volume VIII includes the second Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters, XI, 280 pages / Volume IX includes the third [and last] Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters [including the 88 (!) letters to and from Jonathan Swift] XV, 372 pages //. Original Hardcover / 18th century full calf with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Condition of the eleven Volumes of Pope’s Homer: An original set of all eleven volumes of Homer with their original patina, unaltered in 18th-century-condition and with very few Volumes with minor damage to the spines and some of the leather slightly rubbed and minimally loosened from the boards. Minor, faded dampstain to one Volume and decreasing wormhole-damage to one other Volume. All Volumes firm with one layer inside the Odyssey ever so slightly loosened. All illustrations, maps, folded engravings and allegorical Text-Vignettes within Pope’s Homer present and in excellent condition. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. / Condition of the additional set of nine Volumes of Pope’s works: Overall very good with all Volumes firm but two Volumes with some minor damage to the spines (Volumes I and IV). Occasionally some dampstaining in three of the nine Volumes but overall this nine volume-set of Poepe’s works is in still very good- condition with some pages being a little dusty and only one of the 24 engravings/ illustrations detached and loosely inserted. One of the rare opportunities to buy Alexander Pope’s Homer and collected works in an entire, original 18th century private library-set. From the collection of Daniel Conner, with his Exlibris / Bookplate to the pastedown //

199. [Homer] Felton, Henry / [Duke of Devonshire].

A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: “The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted” and “The late Duke of Devonshire’s Character as a Scholar”]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.

The Third Edition, corrected. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1718. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

200. [Homer] Lectius, Jacobus.

Poetae Graeci Veteres Carminis Heroici Scriptores, Qui Extant, Omnes / Homerus [Iliad and Odysseae Bilingual in Greek and Latin], Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callimachus, Aratus, Nicander, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Dionysus, Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, Musaeus, Theognis, Phocyclides, Pythagorae aurea carmina cum fragmentis alioru, Apollonius Rhodius, Oppianus, Cointus, Smyrnaeus, Nonni Dionysiaca. Apposita Est E Regione Latina Interpretatio. Nota item & variae lectiones margini adscriptae, Cura & recensione Iac. Lectii V.CL [Jacobi Lectii]. Accessit & Index verum & verborum locupletissimus. / [Dedication: “Illustrissimo et Potentissimo Principittera Ac D. Domino Mauritio Landgravio Hassiae, Comiti In Katzenelnbogen, Dietz, Zigenhaim [Ziegenhain], Nidda, &c. Domino suo Clementissimo].

[Bilingual Edition / Greek / Latin / Parallel text in Greek and Latin]. Avreliae Allobrogum [Genève/Geneva/Genf], Petrus De la Rouiere, 1606. Quarto (24 cm wide x 35 cm high). Titlepage (in red and black), [22 unnumbered pages of Dedicatio etc.], 739, 624, [46 unnumbered pages including Colophon] pages. Hardcover / Original 17th century full leather with original spine-label and embossed gilted supralibros to both boards. Binding firm and with only minor signs of wear. Interior with some minor browning. Overall in a very much very good+ condition. Wonderful bilingual edition of the classics, published still during Shakespeare’s lifetime.