8301. Wells, Peter.

The Complete Semi-Slav.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1994. 21.5cm x 13.8cm. 304 pages. Original softcover (paperback). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8302. Wells, Warre B.

An Irish Apologia. Some Thoughts on Anglo-Irish Relations and the War.

Dublin and London, Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1917. 8°. 82 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper (W.P.Pearse). Original newspaper review of this title tipped in on rear pastedown (from “The Irish Homestead” – 1917).

8303. Wells, William.

Temple Newsam House.

Leeds, E.J. Arnold and Son Ltd, 1951. 22cm x 28.5cm. 140 pages with 97 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Small dampstain to lower corner of both boards. Interior excellent and bright.

8304. Welstead, Julia.

Fine That – an Orkney Island Life. Illustrated by Moonart.

First edition. Orkney, Treb Publishing, 2003. 23 cm x 28 cm. 160 pages. With numerous photographs and illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the author’s signature and dedication to Kruger’s wife Nell to title page.

8305. Wen, Haiming.

Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World.

Plymouth, Lexington Books, 2009. 23 cm x 15,5 cm. VIII, 347 pages. Original Hardcover. IMPORTANT: Front free endpaper and halftitle cleanly detached. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Inscribed and signed by the author to Graham Parkes.

8306. Wendt, Herbert.

Ich suchte Adam: Die Entdeckung des Menschen.

Reinbek / Berlin, Rowohlt, 1965. 11,5 x 19cm. 503 Seiten, mit Schwarzweißabbildungen. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand mit einigen Gebrauchsspuren. [rororo Taschenbuch Ausgabe, Bände 707-708-709].

8307. Wentworth Day, J.

Farming Adventure: A Thousand Miles through England on a Horse. With a foreword by the Duke of Grafton.

Second Edition. London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1946. 14.5 x 22cm. Frontispiece, 253 pages, with several black and white photographs. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8308. Wentworth, Harold / Flexner, Stuart Berg [eds.].

The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang. The Comprehensive Abridgement of the Dictionary of American Slang.

First Pocket Books edition. New York, Pocket Books, 1968. 10,5 cm x 17,5 cm. XII, 414, (4) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper.

8309. Werner, E.T.C.

Myths & Legends of China [Myths of Epidemics / Myths of Medicine / Myths of Exorcism etc.] With Thirty-Two Illustrations in Colours by Chinese Artists.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1934. Octavo. Colour-Frontispiece, 454 pages including an excellent Index. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The rare, original dustjacket torn and with a larger part of the jacket missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8310. Werner, Joachim.

Adelsgräber von Niederstotzingen bei Ulm und von Bokchondong in Südkorea – Jenseitsvorstellungen vor Rezeption von Christentum und Buddhismus im Lichte vergleichender Archäologie.

München, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; München : Beck [in Komm.], 1988. 30 cm. 20, 36 Seiten. Illustriert. (Mit 2 Farbtafeln und 36 Abbildungen). Softcover / Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. [Abhandlungen / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; N.F., H. 100].

8311. Werner, Karl Ferdinand.

Les Origines (avant l’an mil).

Paris, Fayard, 1984. 8°. 540 pages. Original Softcover. Bon etat. Inscribed by Werner, Widmungsexemplar von Karl Ferdinand Werner an seinen Historikerkollegen Josef Fleckenstein. [Histoire de France. Tome 1]

8312. Wernisch, Martin.

Communio Viatorum – A Theological Journal. XLII, 2000 – Nr.3. Enthält: Alasdair I.C.Heron – Karl Barth and the Future of Dogmatic Theology / Imre Koncsik – Transsubstantiation – eine Besinnung auf die Analogie / Tomas Hancil and E. Margarete Ziemer – Evolutionary Epistemology as a New Challenge in the Dialogue between Theology and Science.

Prague, 2000. 8°. 87 pages. Softcover. Very good condition.

8313. Wertenbruch, Wilhelm/Freitag, Hans Otto.

Das Kirchenamt im Recht der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung. Ein Beitrag zur normativen Harmonisierung kirchlichen und staatlichen Rechtsverständnisses im Sozialrecht.

Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1979. 8°. 130 Seiten. Softcover / Broschiert. Sehr guter Zustand mit kleinem Fleck auf dem vorderen Einbanddeckel. [Staatskirchenrechtliche Abhandlungen ; Bd. 9].

8314. [West Cork] O’Donovan, Anita / O’Farrell, Sheila / O’Regan, Marilyn / Crowley, Eileen.

The Days of the Old Half Crown [Dunmanway]

West Cork, 2002. Octavo. 96 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8315. West, Morris.

Proteus.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1979. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 273 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8316. Westcott, G.F. (ed.).

The British Railway Locomotive. A Brief Pictorial History of the First Fifty Years of the British Steam Railway Locomotive 1803-1853.

First Edition. London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1958. 21 x 16 cm. 14 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

8317. Westermarck, Edward.

Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco.

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1914. 15 cm x 23 cm. XII, 421 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind ruling to boards. Deckled top and fore- edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright, clean and unmarked. Some untrimmed pages and chipped pages near rear.

8318. Western Hemisphere – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Western Hemisphere – With Stunning Vignettes of Indigenous Peoples, Native Animals.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Enrgaved by J. Rogers. London, Edinburgh & Dublin, J.& F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 34 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.4 cm x 27 cm. In very good condition with only faintest traces of browning to outer margins. Very slight paper imperfections along edge. Minor tear near upper left corner. Very minor tear to map above the Arctic Circle.

8319. [Westmacott, C.M.] / [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu].

The Gazette of Fashion, and Magazine of The Fine Arts and Belle Lettres, dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of York [With the rare Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and an early case of “Musical Copyright” discussed on page 137]. Published in weekly, monthly and wuarterly parts. Composed of Original Papers and Music, with Reviews of Literature in General. Illustrated with numerous Engravings, Portraits of Eminent Persons and Subjects connected with Fashion and the Fine Arts.

Two Parts in one Volume (First half year from January to July, 1822). London, Published for C.M.Westmacott, by Hoffmann, 1822. Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Portrait-Frontispiece, 214, Portrait Frontispiece, 208 pages plus Index for both quarterly parts with listing of all engravings, scores of original pieces of music, portraits, engravings of the latest, “newest” Parisian Costumes etc. Original Hardcover / 19th – century half leather with gilt lettering on spine. With 11 instead of 23 full-page illustrations of which some included are not called for and others seem to have never been part of the collection. Some minor signs of wear only, a few very faint signs of foxing, a little dusty endpapers but especially the text and illustrations all in generally very good or even better condition with some minor signs of wear only. Extremely Rare !

8320. Westmann, Stephan K.

Radiation of Cavities of the Body – Experimental and Clinical Results. [First Edition Offprint from “The British Journal of Physical Medicine”].

British Journal of Physical Medicine, 1936. Folio (22 cm x 28,5 cm). 4 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear and some fraying only. From the library of Percy Bridgman student, Gerald Holton.