741. [Love – Story Harry Luke/Lillie Leonora Neumann] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lillie Leonora Bird [nee Neumann].

Collection of twentyseven (27) manuscript letters by Sir Harry Luke’s first love, Lillie Leonora Hoffmann, as mentioned in “Cities and Men”, Volume I, pages 105-105 and with a photograph on page 96 / The letters are often reaching over multiple pages and are reflecting on Lillie’s longing for her friendship to Luke becoming more. The letters were written between October 6th, 1906 and Lillie Leonora writes a sad and bitter letter to Luke’s posting at Freetown in Sierra Leone on November 21st, 1908 in which she accuses him to be indifferent to their friendship and she informs him of her need to travel to Mexico until the summer of 1909 when she closes with: “…you do not seem to care ever sufficiently to send me an idea of your daily routine which you would surely do fpr some casual friend & so I say I will not write again….till you write or till we meet goodbye. God bless you. Nov.8 – 08 – Lillie”. On November 24th, a last letter from Lillie reaches Harry Luke who must have written to her in the meantime and the two are friends again after Lillie admits she would not send the letter from Nov.8th if she would have a chance to read it again.. Lilie writes: “I got your letter – we certainly have travelled far from each other …There is nothing to say words seem singularly futile”. After this last letter Lillie Leonora dies in Mexico on April 9th, 1909, suddenly of heart failure. Luke kept i his collection a typed, standardized thank-you-card from Lillie Leonora’s husband, Mr.Robert Macdonald Bird, thanking him for “kindness and great sympathy shewn to him in his recent sorrow” [dated June 1909].

1906-1908. Octavo. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Original envelopes included.

742. Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

743. Finn, Frank.

Pets and how to keep them. With twelve coloured plates and many Illustrations after photographs from Life.

London, Hutchinson and Co., 1907. Small Octavo. Color-Frontispice, XVI, 219 pages. Original, decorative Hardcover. Very good, actually excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. With a neat, private gift-inscription: “Violet from Aunt Maud – Xmas 1907”.

744. Goetz, Karl Gerold.

Die heutige Abendmahlsfrage in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung. Ein Versuch zur Lösung.

Zweite, durch ein dreifaches Register vermehrte Ausgabe. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung (Hinrichs), 1907. Gr.-8°. VII, 328 Seiten. Hardcover / Moderner, mit goldener Titelprägung versehener Privat-Halbleinenband. Bibliotheks-Stempel (Ausgeschieden) auf dem Titelblatt. Kleine Fehlstelle (Kante) an der letzten Seite – ohne Textverlust. Sehr guter Zustand der seltenen Ausgabe.

745. Hutton, Mary A.

The Táin – An Irish Epic Told in English Verse by Mary A. Hutton.

Dublin, Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small Quarto (18 cm x 22 cm). XII, 495 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Top edge gilt. The Volume now in collector’s Mylar. Binding with some fraying and rubbing to spine. As usual, the text deckled edges with some foxing. Last page of the Appendix unopened with a small tear. A very rare and important book with all the History and insight into “The Táin”.

746. Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt / Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt (Hrsg.)

Das Deutsche Reich in gesundheitlicher und demographischer Beziehung. Festschrift, den Teilnehmern am XIV. Internationalen Kongresse für Hygiene und Demographie. Berlin, 1907.

Berlin, Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1907. 4°. VII, 331 Seiten. Umfangreich illustriert mit farbigen Diagrammen etc. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband. Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar des Sozialen Museums in Frankfurt am Main. Vier kleinere Stempel. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

747. Kräutlein, Jonathan.

Die sprachlichen Verschiedenheiten in den Hexateuchquellen. Ein Beitrag zum Sprachbeweis in der Literaturkritik des Alten Testaments.

Originale, gedruckte Dissertation. Arnold, 1907. 8°. 66 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Guter Zustand.

748. Layard, George Somes.

Suppressed Plates: Wood Engravings etc., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. 15 x 21.5cm. Frontispiece, (13), 254 pages, with 34 black and white illustration plates. Original embossed green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edges. Some signs of shelf wear to spine and corners, slight lean, front free endpaper foxed, otherwise very good condition. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to front endpaper.

749. [Maguire, Shandy] Fennell, Patrick.

Random Rhymes and Rhapsodies of the Rail.

Cleveland, O., The Cleveland printing Co., 1907. 19 cm. 412 pages. Front portrait illustration. Original hardcover in protective covering. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

750. Mickle, William Julius.

The Lusiad or The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens. With a Life of the Poet.

Fifth, revised, Edition. London, George Bell & Sons, 1907. 13 x 19 cm. XCII, 358 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.