7331. Albert, Hans.

Traktat über kritische Vernunft. [Widmungsexemplar].

3., erweiterte Auflage. Tübingen, J.C.B.Mohr, 1975. 8°. XVI, 219 Seiten. Softcover. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. Mit der gedruckten Widmung an Karl Popper. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung und Signatur von Hans Albert an Oswald Schwemmer. / Inscribed by the german philosopher Hans Albert to fellow philosopher Oswald Schwemmer in 1975. Inscribed books by Albert are very uncommon.

7332. Tourista.

Tourista – Revue pratique de Voyages. [Incl.: “La Motocyclette et Le Grand Tourisme”].

13 issues in one Volume (complete annual 1903). Paris, Prieur et Dubois, 1903. Octavo. 221 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations throughout the Volume. Hardcover [contemporary buckram] with gilt lettering on spine / Original, decorative wrappers bound within / Alpine Club gilt insignia on lower spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding firm and strong. Interior bright and clean. Former library copy of the world-famous “Alpine Club” with thier subtle library stamp evident throughout.

7333. [Nygren, Åke / Sago-ton] / Hedqvist, Greta / Åke Nygren / Hugo Gyllander / Ingeborg Bjork / William Linds Orkester.

Sago-ton – Den Talande Sagoboken: Set of seven (7) Shellac Records for Children with classical and swedish fairy tales, some narrated by Hugo Gyllander, Greta Hedqvist, Ingeborg Bjork and arranged by Åke Nygren with the William Linds Orchestra (Orkester) / The collection includes: 1. Sago-ton No.101: “Snövit” (Snow White) – Med Ljudeffekter / 2. Sago-ton No.102: “Piff och Paff” / 3. Sago-ton No.104: “Pojken som åt ikapp med jätten” / 4. Sago-ton No.105: “De tre bockarna Bruse” / 5. Sago-ton No.107: “Lille Pers vandring” (text: Hugo Gyllander – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester) / 6. Sago-ton No.106: “Igelkottarna” – text: Greta Hedqvist – musik: Åke Nygren and William Linds Orkester PLUS also on the record: “Fotbollslaget” – text: Ingeborg Bjork – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester / 7. Sago-ton No.109: “Trollet Luffendrul” – text: Greata Hedqvist – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester //

Original Shellack Records with illustrated sleeves and storybooks on the sleeves. Stockholm (Sweden), Sago-Konst Ab., c.1955 – 1960. 7 Records. All Records in very good condition with some spotting. The sleeves are all very good and stabil with some minor signs of wear and some occasional repairs. Very rare collection !

7334. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

7335. Farming-Game 19th century / Spiel 19.Jahrhundert /

Rural Economy – Stamped Figures for colouring / Die Landwirthschaft – Figuren zum Ausmalen / La Economia Rustica – Figuras recortados para colorear / L’Economie Rurale – Figures decoupees pour colorier. – Game No./ Spiel No. 1849 – Serie III. Deponiert.

Bilingual Cover for children in England, Germany, Spain and France. [Deutschland / Allemagne / Germany], [c. 1890]. 26 cm x 17 cm x 1,5 cm. 30 figures / 30 figuren. With original flexible metal – stands. Some of the figures painted with the original colour palette. Original Hardcover with lithographed cover (Farmer bringin in the hay). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare agricultural children’s game ! / Shows farming scenes: Making butter, milking cows, Priest visiting, children playing, chicken, goats etc.

7336. Devoy, John.

Recollections of an Irish Rebel – The Fenian Movement – Its Origin and Progress. Methods of Work in Ireland and in the British Army. Why it failed to achieve its main object but exercised great influence on Ireland’s Future. Personalities of the Organization. The Clan-Na-Gael and the Rising of Easter Week, 1916. A Personal Narrative by John Devoy.

New York, Young/Estate of John Devoy, 1929. Large-Octavo. III, 491 pages with the portrait of John Devoy as frontispice (with original tissue-guard present). Original Hardcover with the extremely rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With a Bookplate to the endpaper, identifying this copy as a Presentation-copy from the “Friends of Irish Freedom – New York”, presented to the Library of the Sisters of Mercy Schools in Macroom (County Cork).

7337. Wilson, H. W. [and Hammerton, J. A.].

The Great War – Volume I: Opening Moves / Volume II: Digging In / Volume III: Deadlock / Volume IV: Carnage / Volume V: Continuing Struggle / Volume VI: Victory At Last. The Illustrated History of the First World War.

Reprinted 1999 from the 1914 & 1915 editions. 6 Volumes (Complete). Croatia, Trident Press International, 1999. 25,5 cm x 33 cm. Pagination: 452 pages; 448 pages; 560 pages; 560 pages; 624 pages; 596 pages. Hardcover / Original black cloth binding with original illustrated, unclipped dustjackets in protective Mylar. Slight foxing, staining to top and fore-edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Silver lettering and ornament to spine and front board.

7338. [Riddell, Charlotte Elizabeth] / [Riddell, William Easton].

A Bright Sunset – Or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Scottish Football Player. With introductory Note by J.H.Wilson.

First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Small Octavo. Pagination: Original portrait photograph of William Easton Riddell as Frontispiece, VI, (2), 142 pages with two wood-engravings (″Toward Point” and “Up the Kyles in the Ariel”). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover with a football-scene on the front board, gilt lettering and floral elements. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare first edition with the original photograph of William Easton Riddell. Private giftinscription on the front free endpaper.

7339. [O’Connell, Daniel / Grattan Prosecution] Anonymous.

The Law Recorder [Defaced with satirical alteration of the Frontispiece]: Containing Reports of Cases and Proceedings in the Courts of Law and Equity, &c. &c. &c. at Dublin and elsewhere, from Michaelmas Term, 1827 to Trinity Term, 1828, (both inclusive) with Essays, Communications &c. &c. on Legal Subjects.

Original First Edition. Volume I only. Dublin, Printed for the Proprietor, 1828. Large Quarto. Engraved portrait-frontispiece of Sir Anthony Hart, Knight, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland [with a few caricatural corrections in contemporary ink (see image)], XXIV, 586 pages. Hardcover / Original half leather of the early 19th century with original spinelabel. Slightly dusty and and the binding a little stronger rubbed. Interior still very good with some browning to corners of the bookblock and some occasional foxing. Very rare, original edition with several appearances of Daniel O’Connell as defender and speaker !

7340. [Defoe, Daniel].

Bibliographical account / Robinson Crusoe Collection / Robinson Crusoe Bibliography – Privately documented and bound collection of 576 different versions of Robinson Crusoe editions in 40 languages. Among them Gaelic, Hindi, Afrikaans, Arabic etc. etc. / The Life and Strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Germany, c.1998. Folio. c. 580 pages. (Xeroxed coverpages with bibliographical accounts attached). Hardcover (half cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor dampstain to lower spine. This xerox compilation was done in preparation of selling a private collection in the 1990’s by a german antiquarian bookdealer. Very Rare, probably unique account / bibliography (we are not aware of more copies of this record).