7791. [Calder, Alexander] La Fontaine, Jean.

Selected Fables – Translated by Eunice Clark. Illustrated by Alexander Calder.

First Edition. New York, The Quadrangle Press, 1948. Quarto (23.5 cm wide x 30.5 cm high). 88 pages with line-drawings by Calder throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Faded dampstain to edge, else a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7792. Riddell, Robert.

The Carpenter and Joiner, Stair Builder and Hand-Railer. With fifty-eight plates and a Series of Card-Board Models.

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow, William Mackenzie, no year [c.1874]. Folio (28 cm x 35 cm). Frontispiece, 124 pages text and 58 plates [The Frontispiece counts as Plate 58]. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on board and reinforced, contemporary “workshop binding”. Good condition with signs of external wear. Inside a little dusty but firm and complete !!

7793. Theroux, Alexander.

History is Made at Night. And other Poems.

First Edition. West Chester, Aralia Press, 1992. 14 x 24 cm. Unpaginated. Approximately 30 pages. Original cloth. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Signed by the author on the title page. One of only 150 copies printed. Minimal signs of wear on the cover.

7794. [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.

7795. Ubbelohde, Otto. (1867 – 1922)

Gräber.

Radierung auf imitiertem Japanpapier. [Wien], [Druck der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst], [1902]. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with the Etching / Radierung: 52 cm x 75 cm. Actual Size / Groesse der Radierung: 29 x 53.5 cm. Excellent condition !

7796. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery / Lane, John Henry H.V.

19th century original british Passport for “Mr.John Henry H. V. Lane (British Subject) travelling on the continent”, signed in July of 1886 by later prime minister Archibald Philip, Earl of Roseberry, then Foreign Secretary under Gladstone during his brief third ministry.

London, Given at the Foreign Office, 1886. 27.7 cm x 38.2 cm. 1 sheet. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. Fantastic and important document of british foreign office history.

7797. [Provenance: King’s Bromley Manor Library] Simms, Rupert.

Bibliotheca Staffordiensis, or a Bibliographical Account of Books and other Printed Matter. Relating to, Printed or Published in, or Written by a Native, Resident, or Person deriving a title from, any portion of the County of Stafford: Giving a Full Collation and Biographical Notices of Authors and Printers, Together with as full a list as possible of Prints, Engravings, Etchings, &c., of any part thereof; and Portraits of Persons so connected.

No.155 of only 200 copies of a limited edition (for Subscribers only). Lichfield, Printed for the compiler by A.C.Lomax, The “Johnson’s Head”, 1894. 4°. XXV, 546 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Overall an excellent condition. Internally bright and clean. Bookplate of John Henry Hervey Vincent Lane “Garde le Roy” (Kings Bromley / Staffordshire) to pastedown.

7798. [Kings Bromley Manor].

Collection of two very rare original Albumen Print Photoalbums wih original photographs of Kings Bromley Manor, Kings Bromley Farm, Lichfield, parts of the Lane Family, places the Lane – Family visited etc. etc.

Lichfield (Staffordshire, England), no year (ca.1890-1910). Folio / Quarto. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7799. Pritchett, V.S. / Evelyn Hofer (Photographer).

DUBLIN – A Portrait. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1967. Quarto (22 cm x 28 cm). 99 pages with 16 pages of photographs in full colour and 78 photographs in monochrome gravure. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some minor tears to dustjacket, now in protective sleeve, but else in unusually very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A fantastic publication.

7800. Biggers, Earl Derr.

Seven Keys to Baldpate.

First UK Edition. London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1914. Octavo. 309 pages plus “A Catalogue of Books published by Mills & Boon Ltd.” with 22, [10] pages at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bookblock slightly distrorted only. Very good, very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription to half-title.