3811. Miró, Joan / Sam Hunter [Introduction].

Joan Miró – His Graphic Work. Introduction by Sam Hunter – With 79 Gravure Illustrations and 14 Color Plates [Includes Two original Lithographs].

First Edition. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1958. Quarto (28 cm wide x 32.7 cm high). XXXV, 108 pages. Original Hardcover with the beautiful, original, illustrated dustjacket. With publisher’s paper-band loosely inserted and in original slipcase. Very Minor signs of removed sellotape to binding and dustjacket only. A very firm and clean copy of this important catalogue raissonee in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With the wonderful photograph of Miro, flanked by apprentices, in his studio.

3812. Bock, Alfred.

Deutsche Dichter in ihren Beziehungen zur Musik [Widmungsexemplar von Alfred Bock]. Klopstock – Wieland – Lessing – Schiller – Goethe – Herder – Jean Paul – Romantiker – Hoffmann – Lenau – Heine – Grillparzer.

Neue Ausgabe. Giessen, J.Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, 1900. Octavo. XI, 264 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Originaler, sehr dekorativer Ganzleinenband mit wundervollen Jugendstil-Elementen. Nahezu neuwertige Erhaltung. Extrem seltenes Widmungsexemplar von Alfred Bock. Die Widmung liest sich: “Meinem Freund – Prof. Dr. H. Walther in aufrichtiger Gesinnung – G[iessen], May.18 – Der Verf[asser]”.”

3813. Chang, Kang-I Sun / Owen, Stephen.

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature [Volume I “To 1375” and Volume II “From 1375”]. Edited by Kang-I Sun Chang and Stephen Owen.

Two Volumes (complete set). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Octavo (16 cm wide x 23 cm high). Volume I: XXXII, 711 pages / Volume II: XXXI, 793 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Both Volumes in absolutely excellent, clen, firm, close to new condition.

3814. Porter, William Henry [Irish Surgeon (1790-1861)].

Observations on the Surgical Pathology and Treatment of Aneurism – Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on That Disease – Delivered in the School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland During the Session, 1839-40. Part I [possibly all which was ever published because we could only establish Part I in Worldwide Libraries].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Joshua Porter, 72, Grafton-Street, no year (c.1840). Octavo (15 cm wide x 23.3 cm high). XV, 214 pages. Original Hardcover with rebacked spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Frome the library of irish cardiologist Eoin O’Brien.

3815. [Zhizhong, Gu].

Creation of the Gods [″Investiture of the Gods”]. Translated by Gu Zhizhong.

Two Volumes (complete). Beijing (China), New World Press, 1992. Octavo (14 cm wide x 21.5 cm high). Volume I: 551 pages (with illustrations) / Volume II: 479 pages (with illustrations). Both Volumes in Original Hardcover with the beautiful, original dustjackets in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. The Volumes seem to be unread ! A very rare set, nearly impossible to find in this well protected condition.

3816. Thomson, D.C.

“Bullet” – Collection of twentyone (21) original “Bullet-comic” – issues from the year 1976.

First Editions. Twentyone Issues. London, D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd., February-October 1976. Quarto (21.2 cm wide x 30 cm high). Each issue has 35 pages. The Comic was published weekly, every Tuesday. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3817. Natsume, Soseki.

Collection of Five Rare Natsume-Publications from the Tuttle Classics Series. The collection includes: 1. Soseki Natsume – “The 210th Day – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002) / 2. Soseki Natsume – “My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature” – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu and Introduced by Inger Brody (2004) / 3. Soseki Natsume – Inside My Glass Doors – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002) / 4. Soseki Natsume – The Heredity of Taste – Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu and Introduced by Stephen W. Kohl (2004) / 5. Soseki Natsume – Spring Miscellany and London Essays Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu (2002).

Boston, Tuttle Publishing, 2002-2004. Octavo. Original, illustrated Softvover-Volumes. All five Volumes in excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

3818. Barber, Fionna.

Art in Ireland since 1910.

London, Reaktion Books, 2013. 26 cm. 318 pages illlustrations (chiefly color). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3819. Piper, John.

Victorian Dream Palaces and Other Buildings in Landscape.

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., no date [1977]. Quarto (21 cm wide x 29.7 cm high). 16 pages, Illustrated. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3820. Black, Eileen.

Through The Salerooms – Art Auctions in Belfast, 1807-1888.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2022. Quarto (21.8 cm wide x 29.4 cm high). XXI, 424 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.