6581. [Gross, Anthony] Herdman, Robin.

The Prints of Anthony Gross – A catalogue raisonné. / [With an Essay “Anthony Gross – A Technical Note” by Alan Windsor / Introduction to the Catalogue / Chronology / The Prints]. With a Foreword by Michael Rothenstein.

Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1991. Quarto (22.3 cm wide x 27.2 cm high). 126 pages with Colour Plates and many Black-and-White Illustrations throughout. Covering the period of 1920 – 1984. Hardcover / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear.

6582. Stafford, William C.

A History of Music.

Edinburgh, Printed for Constable & Co., 1830. Small-Octavo (10.5 cm x 15.5 cm). Advertising-Pamphlet bound before the publication, Engraved title-page, VIII, 387 pages. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s cloth with Facsimile-spine-label. Excellent condition besides some minor foxing. Engraved title slightly loosened. [″Constable’s Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science & The Arts – Volume LII: History of Music”].

6583. Behring, Emil von.

Gesammelte Abhandlungen – Neue Folge. [Originales, ehemaliges Beleg-Exemplar der Behringwerke Marburg].

Erste Ausgabe. Bonn, A.Marcus & E.Weber, 1915. Octavo. XVIII, 246 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Wunderbare Original-Ausgabe, ein Beleg-Exemplar der Behringwerke in der schoenen Verlagsbindung mit dem Exlibris des dänischen Wissenschaftlers Vilhelm Jensen auf dem Innendeckel [Vilhelm Jensen war in Kopenhagen Mitarbeiter des Bakteriologen und Robert Koch-Schüler’s Carl Julius Salomonsen]. Exzellente Erhaltung / Unusually excellent condition, this copy comes from the library of danish scientist Vilhelm Jensen (Co-worker of danish bacteriologist Carl Julius Salomonsen). Rare and special !

6584. [Gross, Anthony] Mary and Peter Gross (Editors).

Anthony Gross – Edited and with an Introduction by Mary and Peter Gross. With Texts by Sebastian Carter, David Curtis, Richard Morphet, Graham Reynolds, Angela Weight. [Richard Morphet: The Paintings / Graham Reynolds: The Prints / Angela Weight – The War Years / Sebastian Carter: The Book Illustrations / David Curtis: The Animated Films / Works in Public Collections – With a thorough Bibliography of “Books Illustrated by Anthony Gross” / “Book Covers and Jackets Illustrated by Anthony Gross” / “Published and Unpublished Writings of Anthony Gross” / “Secondary Works”].

Aldershot, Scolar Press / Ashgate Publishing Co., 1992. Quarto (22.3 cm wide x 27.2 cm high). Frontispiece – Portrait of Anthony Gross, 143 pages with XXXII Colour-Plates and 81 Black-and-White-Illustrations throughout the text. Hardcover / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear.

6585. Benoit-Lévy, Georges.

Cités-Jardins D’Amérique. [Signed / Inscribed] [History of American Garden Cities]. Préface par Émile Cheysson Membre de L’Institut.

Paris, Henri Jouve, 1905. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. III, 462 pages. Several black and white photographic plates throughout. Original Hardcover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tanning to pages and more markedly so on pages 145 to 160. Ex-library and museum copy with four stamps, all from Frankfurt institutions, to endpapers and title page. Also a small stamp from Wilhelm Denn bookbinder, Frankfurt on bottom corner of pastedown. Library labels and codes on spine and in pencil on pastedown. Scribble in ink pen on free endpaper. Signed and inscribed by author Georges Benoit-Lévy dated 1/9/‘05.

6586. [Steiner-Prag, Hugo] Hoffmann, E.T.A.

Die Elixiere des Teufels. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Georg Ellinger mit Zeichnungen von Hugo Steiner-Prag.

Berlin, G. Grote, 1907. 24.6cm x 17.5cm. XVII, 280 Seitenm mit neun ganzseitigen Illustrationen (Tafeln mit Tissue-Guard). Originaler, illustrierter Ganzleinenband mit den originalen, illustrierten Vorsatzblättern. Eine der Einbandkanten etwas stärker bestossen. Minimale Stossspur am Schnitt. Sonst der originale Einband ganz außergewöhnlich gut erhalten. Wundervolle Vignetten und Illustrationen von Hugo Steiner-Prag.

6587. Benoit-Lévy, Georges.

Maisons de Campagne sans Etage et Bungalows.

[Paris], Librairie Ch. Massin, [1926]. Folio (24 cm x 33,5 cm) / [Grand in-4]. 4 p. Texte et 48 planches. Hardcover / Original, illustratedl publisher’s chemise with three original laces. Excellent condition / Exemplaire en tres bon état.

6588. Minshall, W. (Photographer and father of Trinidad Artist and Mas-Man, Peter Minshall) / Louis Tucker (Photographer) / R.E.Johnson (Photographer).

The Trinidad Portfolio – Sixteen Pictures (Original Photographs / Photogravures on heavy paper, showing Trinidad Carnival, Trinidad Nature, Port-of-Spain-Harbour, The Queen’s Park Hotel, People of Trinidad (East Indian Silversmith), Teteron Bay, Santa Cruz Valley, Macqueripe Bay, Mardi Gras Carnival etc.) – The sixteen Photographs are all placed in the original Folder, titled: “Trinidad – British West Indies” and with the blindstamped aluminium-seal “″Miscerique probat populos et fœdera jungi” [which translated as “He approves of the mingling of peoples and their being joined together by treaties”].

Trinidad, The Tourist and Exhibitions Board of Trinidad and Tobago [Printed in England], no year (c.1945-1950). 23 cm wide x 31 cm high. 16 original photogravures inside the original Folder, issued by the Tourist and Exhibitions Board of Trinidad and Tobago. The 16 Photographs measure: 22.7 cm x 30.3 cm (some are oblong-formats some in portrait-format). Softcover / Original Folder. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The aluminium – seal slightly bent. Interior and photographs in absolutely excellent condition. Extremely scarce !

6589. Bray, Lieutenant R. J.

Pivots and Caps in Compasses.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1917. 16 x 25cm. 78 pages, with 88 illustrations. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Mild signs of wear to boards and spine, outer margins of pastedowns and endpapers slightly waterstained. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Rare !

6590. Haensel, Carl / [Bundesverfassungsgericht Richterin Dr. Erna Scheffler / Haßlacher, geb. Friedenthal]

Das Gericht vertagt sich: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Nürnberger Verteidigers [From a diary of a german defender at the Nuremberg Trials].

Erste Auflage. Hamburg, Claassen Verlag, 1950. 14 x 21,5cm. 347 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Leinen in Mylar. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Aus der Bibliothek von Dr.Erna Scheffler. Handschriftliche Widmung, signiert vom Autor Carl Haensel: “Frau Bundesverfassungsrichterin Dr. Erna Scheffler erg[ebenst] ueberreicht. Baden-Baden, 18.VI.53. Carl Haensel”.

6591. Schmalz, Theodor Anton Heinrich von.

Handbuch des canonischen Rechts und seiner Anwendung in den teutschen evangelischen Kirchen. Zum Gebrauch für Vorlesungen vom Geheimen Rath Schmalz zu Berlin.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Achenwall und Compagnie, 1815. 13 cm x 21 cm. X, 325 Seiten und Errata-Blatt. Originaler, sehr dekorativer Halblederband mit reicher, filigraner Rückenvergoldung, blassgrünem Schnitt und organgenem Rückenschildchen. Sehr guter, aussergewöhnlicher Zustand der Bindung mit nur vereinzelten Stockfleckchen im Text. Als Beilage: Portrait von Theodor Schmalz (originaler Umriss-Stich des 19.Jahrhunderts unter Passepartout).

6592. O’Donnell, F.Hugh [Major George Bernard O’Connor / IRA].

The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar [including a chapter: “The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language” and with an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”].

London, David Nutt, 1902. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23 cm). XXIII, 202 pages. Hardcover / Recently professionally restored. Modern half-leather-binding with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some pages with some minor browning. From the library of Major George Bernard O’Connor, with his name “O’Connor” on titlepage and his Rochestown address (″Illane Roe, Rochestown, Co.Cork”, to endpaper). O’Connor, of the 6th Dragoons, was identified as spy and executed by the IRA on July 10th, 1921.

6593. Mavor, William.

The British Nepos: Consisting of the Lives of Illustrious Britons Who Have Distinguished Themselves by their Virtues, Talents or remarkable Advancement in Life; with incidental practical reflections.

Twelfth Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XI, [1], 458 pages with all 24 portraits of eminent British People of History in place. Hardcover / Original, contemporary full leather with gilt ornament on spine. Binding slightly rubbed but firm and holding. Interior slightly dusty but overall in very good condition. Giftinscription from 1822 in ink verso titlepage.

6594. Berrigan, Daniel / Coles, Robert [Provenance: Francine du Plessix Gray].

The Geography of the Faith. Conversations between Daniel Berrigan, when Underground, and Robert Coles. [With interesting Text-Markings by Francine du Plessix Gray on Bonhoeffer and one annotation on Berrigans mention “…upon the violence of a few who are out of power”].

First Edition. Boston, Beacon Press, 1971. 21cm x 14.5cm. (8) 179 (4) pages. Fine copy in publisher’s half cloth-covered boards and in near fine dust jacket. In protective Mylar. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by Robert Coles on front free endpaper to Francine (du Plessix Gray) in September 1971: “For Francine….Bob”.

6595. Todd, John.

The Student’s Manual: Designed by specific Directions to aid in Forming and strengthening the Intellectual and Moral Character and Habits of The Student.

The Tenth Edition. Halifax, Printed & Published by William Milner, 1848. Miniature Book (8 cm x 12 cm). IV, 237 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The binding unusually form and the original endpapers intact.

6596. [Mac Liammóir, Micheál / Ó Conaire, Pádraic] O’ Neill, Eamonn.

The Woman at the Window and Other Stories. Translated from the Irish of Pádraic Ó Conaire by Eamonn O Neill. New Edition – With Illustrations by Micheál Mac Liammóir.

Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, no year [c. 1931]. Octavo (15 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece, 127 pages. Original Hardcover with original, beautifully illustrated dustjacket in protective Collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Privately inscribed on the endpaper “For Jim – Christmas 1947”. A very unusual condition of this amazzing publication.

6597. Aksyonov, Vassilii Pavlovich.

The Burn. A novel in three books (Late Sixties – Early Seventies). Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.

New York, Random House, 1984. 8°. 528 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Inscribed / signed by Aksyonov and translator Michael Glenny in the year of publication. First US edition of “Ozhog” – this portrait of life during the Kruschev years, whose publication in Italy forced Aksyonov to emigrate in 1980. Probably his major work to date. Near fine in like dust jacket with light wear and a short edge-tear to spinal extremities.

6598. O’Leary, Daniel.

Kilmeen and Castleventry Parish, (County Cork) – [With a Chapter on The O’Hurleys of Ballinacarriga & Ballinvard / The O’Donovan MacEneslis Clan ]. (This publication was sponsored personally by Jerry Beechinor).

Castlewhite House (Waterfall, near Cork), J.Beechinor, 1975. Quarto. V, 136 pages with map and illustrations throughout the pages. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper. Extremely rare / scarce publication. Including an ephemeral advertising leaflet: “Calling all Natives and Friends of Kilmeen and Castleventry Parish at Home and Overseas: You cannot afford to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to read the history of this great Parish”.

6599. Friedrich, Carl J. / [Alexander Rüstow].

The Age of the Baroque. 1610-1660. The Rise of Modern Europe. A Survey of European History in its Political, Economic, and Cultural Aspects From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present.

First edition. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1952. 15 x 22 cm. 367 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of usage. Inscribed by Carl J. Friedrich on the front free endpaper to his colleague Alexander Rüstow / Mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Friedrich auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz: ‘Meinem lieben Alexander in Freundschaft – Achim Friedrich’ With few clean markings inside. [The Rise of Modern Europe – Edited by William L. Langer]

6600. Rausch, Friedrich.

Original, trilingual handbook with loosely inserted plates, showing the phonetics (position and look of tongue, lips and teeth-positions during speaking certain words) Handausgabe von Rausch’s Lauttafeln [Inclusive dem englischen “th”] – 26 lithographische Tafeln mit Lautbezeichnungen der Association Phonetique Internationale nach Vietor’s Lauttafeln. Zusätzlich mit einer deutschen Lauttafel (System Vietor) welche nach Lippenlauten, Zahnlauten, Gaumenlauten und Kehllauten trennt.

2. Auflage der verkleinerten Ausgabe. Marburg, N.G.Elwert / Association Phonetique International, [1913]. Octavo. 26 Tafeln in Postkartengröße, lose in originaler Verlags-Flügelmappe. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand dieser seltenen Ausgabe / Tafel 1 rückseitig mit Bibliotheksstempel. Alle Tafeln vorderseitig mit zusätzlicher (verkehrter) Numerierung in Buntstift. / Reduced edition (pocket edition) of Friedrich Rausch’s phonetic plates, illustrating the speech sounds, including one plate for the digraph “th”.