1. Abu Taleb Tabrizi / Abu Taleb Isfahani / Mirza Abu Taleb Khan.

The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803. Written by himself, in the Persian language. [With an Appendix: ‘Author’s Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women’]. Translated by Charles Stewart, Esq.

First and only Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. Octavo. Frontispice-Portrait with original tissue-guard, VIII, (8), 320, 418 pages. Hardcover / Beautifully restored bindings by english master binders in stunning modern half-morocco with the original spine-labels applied. Original endpapers and pastedowns with the original bookplates / Exlibris preserved. Excellent condition with some browing and ghosting to the pages, as usual with this set. Name of historical preowner Richard Meade in ink on titlepages. Rare in this very amazing restored condition.

2. Achmatowa, Anna.

Ich lebe aus dem Mond, du aus der Sonne – Liebes-Gedichte / Hundert Gedichte über die Liebe. Aus dem Russischen von Alexander Nitzberg Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Olaf Irlenkauser.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 118 pages. Cover image – drawing by Amedeo Modigliani. Image on back flap – photograph of Anna Akmatova in 1910. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Adamson, Joy.

Born Free – A Lioness of Two Worlds. With extracts from George Adamson’s Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman.

Fifth Impression. London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1960. Octavo. 160 pages with wonderful photographs in colour and black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With two very interesting original newspaper – clippings on Joy Adamson included.

4. [Akhmatova, Anna] Feinstein, Elaine.

Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova.

First paperback edition. London, Phoenix, 2006. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (14), 322 pages, with black and white photograph plates. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Previous owner’s name on page I.

5. Alazard, Jean.

The Florentine Portrait.

First Schocken Edition. New York, Schocken Books, 1968. 13.5cm x 20cm. 235 pages with 63 illustrations. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6. Alexander, Francesca.

The Hidden Servants and Other Very Old Stories. Told over again by Francesca Alexander.

First edition. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. 13.5 x 19.5cm. Frontispiece, (17), 234 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering in protective Mylar. Gilt tops and deckled edges. Very good condition, some minor signs of wear to spine, binding slightly shaky. Dedication to Lady Hobart by author on front free endpaper / Beautifully signed by Francesca Alexander.

7. Anonymous.

Blessed Mary of Saint Euphrasia Pelletier, First Superior-General of the Congregation of our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd of Angers.

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1933. 14 x 22cm. (8), 419 pages, with black and white plates. Original hardcover. Spine faded, minor signs of shelf wear, otherwise excellent condition. Pre-owner’s stamp on title page.

8. Aristotle. [Anon].

The Works of Aristotle, The Famous Philosopher, containing I. His Complete Masterpiece, II. His Experienced Midwife, III. His Book of Problems, IV. His Remarks on Physiognomy, V. The Family Physician. New and improved edition.

London, The Booksellers, no date (c.1890). 9 x 13cm. 528 pages, with text illustrations and colour plates. Original illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, some creasing to spine. Historical Sex-Manual, disguised as works of Aristotle. Discusses Virginity (and what it is), How Virginity may be lost, How a woman should order herself in order to conception, [″A woman that would conceive should observe that she does not use the act of coition too often; for gatiety gluts the womb and renders it unfit for office (!) – There are two things that demonstrate this: i.e., that common whores (who often use copulation) have never, or rarely, any children: for the grass seldom grows in a path that is commonly trodden in. The other is, that women, whose husbands have been long absent, do, after copulation with them again, conceive very quickly” / “Women ought to take great care that their imagination be pure and dear, that their child may be well formed”]. The book also discusses causes and cure of Barrenenss, Of the Hot Distempers of the Womb, The Diseases of the Womb, Palmistry, shewing the various judgments drawn from the hand, includes a choice of remedies for the several distempers to the human body, (Crabs, Herpes, Hysteria etc.).

9. Ashford, Daisy.

The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteenas Plan. With a Preface by J.M.Barrie.

Fourth Impression. London, Chatto & Windus, June 1919. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 85 pages. Private Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. [Atwood, Margaret] Buhler Roth, Verena.

Wilderness and the Natural Environment – Margaret Atwood’s Recycling of a Canadian Theme.

Tubigen, Francke Verlag, 1998. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. VII, 206 pages. Original Hardcover with a cover photograph by Tom Thomson ‘Pine Treee’ (Oil on Panel, Art Gallery of Ontario). Important: A few pencil annotations in text. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten – Swiss Studies in English].