841. Stuart, J.

A History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906, and of Dinuzulu’s arrest, Trial and Expatriation. With Five Maps, Six Plans and Twenty Five Illustrations.

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1913. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 581 pages. Large fold-out map sheet at rear, showing a Key Map of Natal and Area of Operations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges and tissue-guards, as usual with this publication. Interior bright and clean besides very minor signs of foxing.

842. Stravinsky, Igor (Composer 1882-1971).

Works of Igor Stravinsky on 22 CD’s. Volume 1 – Volume 6: Ballets / Volume 7: Ballets (Suites) / Volume 8: Symphony in E-Flat with Rehearsals and Talks / Volume 9: Symphonies / Volume 10: Concertos / Volume 11: Miniature Masterpieces / Volume 12 & 13: Chamber Music & Historical Recordings Part I & Part II / Volume 14: Operas / Volume 15: 35 Songs / Volume 16 & 17: The Rake’s Progress (1 & 2) / Volume 18 & 19: Oratorio – Melodrama (1 & 2) / Volume 20 & 21: Sacred Works (1 & 2) / Volume 22: Robert Craft conducts under the Supervision of Igor Stravinsky //

Holland, Sony Classical Music, 2007. CD Size. Booklet and 22 CD’s. Original Hardcover Cardboard-Box. Besides some minor bumping to the box, this rare set of 22 CD’s is in excellent condition. [Sony Classical].

843. Stokes, William.

Die Brustkrankheiten. deren richtige Würdigung und Behandlung. Neueste Übertragung ins Deutsche, mit Zugabe der später vom Verfasser veröffentlichten Aufsätze: I. Ueber Krebs der Lungen und des Mediastinums / II. Ueber akute Induration der Lungen / III. Ueber Cirrhose der Lungen. Unter der Redaction des Dr. Fr. J. Behrend (practischer Arzt in Berlin).

Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1844. 8°. 475 Seiten. Originales Halbleder mit marmoriertem Einbanddeckel. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. / Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. [Bibliothek von Vorlesungen der vorzüglichsten und berühmtesten Lehrer des Auslandes über Medizin, Chirurgie und Geburtshülfe, bearbeitet oder redigirt von Dr. Friedrich J. Behrend. Band XXXII.].

844. Stephens, J.L. / Park, Mungo.

Sammelband with three publications on Travels in Africa: Volume I: J.L. Stephens – Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and The Holy Land / Volume II: Incidents of Travel in Greece Turkey Russia and Poland / Volume III: The Life and Travels of Mungo Park – Comprising An Original Memoir of His Early Life, A Reprint of the ’″Travels in the Interior of Africa,” Written by Himself, And Published in Quarto in 1798, And An Original Narrative of His Second Journey. Also, An Original Account of the Progress of African Discovery from the Death of Park Till the Year 1838. Illustrated by a Map.

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1838-1839. 15.5 cm x 25 cm. Volume I: 120 pages / Volume II: 114 pages / Volume III: 88 pages with a full-page-map of Park’s Travels. Hardcover / publisher’s original half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Good+ condition with signs of external wear, sometimes significant. Edges and corners of boards are bumped and rubbed. Crack to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still strong and firm. Occasional foxing throughout only.

845. [Sinn Féin].

Sinn Féin Constitution.

Dublin, Sinn Fein Headquarters / Ard-Fheis, 1950. Octavo. 6 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with dogears, some browning. Extremely Rare !

846. Simmel, Georg.

Philosophie des Geldes.

Zweite, vermehrte Auflage. Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1907. 18 cm x 24.5 cm. XIV, 585 Seiten. Moderner Halblederband in sehr gutem Zustand mit eingebundener Originalbroschur / Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Professionally rebacked with marbled paper and leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discoloration and slight foxing on the title page. Private Widmung / Inscribed by previous owner on half-title page. Text in German.

847. Shelford, Frederic.

Pioneering. A Series of Four Articles contributed to “The Engineer.”

London / New York, E. & F. N. Spon / Spon & Chamberlain, 1909. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 82 82 pages. With numerous illustrations throughout the text, showing examples of basic equipment, medicines etc. for the pioneer and surveyor [photographs of “A Hammock as commonly used in West Africa” / “Miner’s Dial” / “Instrument Umbrella” (Mosquito Net) / “Edgington’s Aluminium Demi-Johns” / “Doulton’s Traveller Pump Filter” etc.]. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to lower corner boards. Some minor signs of staining to pages 46 and 47, otherwise interior very good. Extremely Rare publication for the Settler and Pioneer in Colonial Africa !

848. [Schweigaard, Anton Martin] Aubert, L.M.B.

Anton Martin Schweigaards Barndom og Ungdom, 1808-1835: Breve og Erindringer. [Letters in norwegian (″Trine″and german (″Til Pastor Koeppen”). With an Appendix with 10 chapters / Med Bilag – Including explanatory sections on Schweigaard’s earliest publications, like for example: “De la Philosophie Allemande”, Schweigaards Examination ved den juridiske Embedsexamens mudtlige Prove – 21de December 1831 / “Uddrag af Schweigaards Afhandling “De l’etat civil des femmes selon le droit de la Norvege et du Danemark” / etc.]. Udgivet af L.M.B.Aubert. Med Schweigaards Portraet og Tre Facsimiler [Breve].

Kristiania / [Christiania] / [Oslo], Mallings Boghandels Forlag, 1883. Octavo. Frontispiece – Portrait of Schweigaard by J.S. Welhaven & J.Nordhagen, XC, 222 pages plus two pages with three (3) facsimile – autograph – letters by Anton Schweigaard; including 2 Stamtavle with Genalogy of the Schweigaard – Family (from Lars Dahl (1625-1635) to Anton Martin Schweigaard). Softcover. Former library – copy from the “Historisches Seminar der Universitaet Kiel”. Portrait loosened. Name of preowner: Sigurd Gulbrandsen on endpaper.

849. Schreiner, Olive [Iron, Ralph].

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 346 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small embossment to front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to board corners. Small cutout (of old name) on halftitle. Interior lightly tanned throughout but bright and clean. Binding is strong, firm and square.

850. [Savigny, Friedrich Carl von] Stern, Dr.Jacques.

Thibaut und Savigny – Zum 100jährigen Gedächtnis des Kampfes um einheitliches bürgerliches Recht für Deutschland (1814 – 1914). Die Originalschriften in ursprünglicher Fassung mit Nachträgen, Urteilen der Zeitgenossen und einer Einleitung.

Erstausgabe. Berlin, Verlag von Franz Vahlen, 1914. Oktav. 238, (2), Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband der Zeit. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur wenigen Gebrauchsspuren. Eine Lage geloest.

851. Satirical Illustration of the 19th century – [Funny Fellow / Comical Tales]

The Funny Fellow. Comprising His Humorous Sketches And Comical Tales Together With His Droll Songs, Witty Sayings, Laughable Adventures, And Startling Anecdotes

First Edition of a comic-style publication. London, Ward And Lock, 158 Fleet Street / Printed by Levey, Robson and Franklyn, 1862. 11 x 17cm. IV, 220 pages with numerous grotesque illustrations. Original Hardcover with patterned cloth. Binding slightly shaky only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With illustrations in “Punch – Style”.

852. Sapper / Cyril McNeile / [i.e. H.C. McNeile].

Oiléan an Uathbháis – [Island of Terror]. Proinnsias Ó Brógáin do chuir i nGaedhilg.

First gaelic edition. Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, Baile Átha Cliath, 1937. Octavo. 259 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

853. Russell, Michael.

Nubia and Abyssinia: Comprehending their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, and Natural History. Illustrated by a Map and Twelve Engravings, Chiefly by Jackson.

First Edition. Edinburgh / London, Oliver & Boyd / Simpkin & Marshal, 1833. 11 cm x 17 cm. 440 pages. Fold-out-map of Nubia and Abyssinia placed before titlepage. Twelve single-page engraved illustrations. Nine of these are by Jackson, two by Branston and one by Wright. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with ‘Edinburgh Cabinet Library’– label on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Abrasions and tears evident to spine. Binding still firm and strong. Minor, clean tear in fold-out map. Some foxing to map, tissue-guard and titlepage. Private gift-inscription by preowner James Johnstone (possibly the scottish MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire) to his sister A.E.Webster on endpaper. [Edinburgh Cabinet Library – XII].

854. Roome, Wm. J.W.

Through Central Africa for the Bible. [Inscribed – Signed / Including a map showing the Journeys of William J.W.Roome].

London and Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd, [1929]. 14 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 208 pages. 10 plates with black and white photographs. Map in front of Frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded. Occasional foxing. Interior bright and clean with sharp corners. Binding is solid and square. Front endpaper carries signed inscription from author, “To my friend, W. H. Rowdon – With the Author’s good wishes, Wm. J.W. Roome, Feb. 5. 36.”

855. [Roberts, William] [Exlibris Gulielme (sic) Roberts] Bonnechose, Émile de / L.Dussieux (cartographer).

Géographie Physique, Historique et Politique de la France avec dix-huit cartes coloriées représentant la formation successive du Royaume.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1847. Octavo (14 cm x 23 cm). V, (2), 104 pages, suivies de 18 cartes aux contours colorisés, de la France dans ses états successifs (104 pages plus 18 hand-coloured maps of France by L.Dussieux showing France through its History, with special maps showing historical military events with England etc. Original Softcover. Spine rubbed and slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner William Roberts in pencil on titlepage [being William Roberts of the irish family Westropp-Roberts].

856. Rinehart, Mary Roberts / [The American Agatha Christie].

Original Portrait Photograph Signed by the “Amerian Agatha Christie”, Mary Roberts Rinehart.

[USA], c.1915. Quarto (19.5 cm wide xo 24.3 cm high). 1 sheet. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

857. Rexroth, Kenneth.

With Eye and Ear.

New York, Herder and Herder, 1970. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Kenneth Rexroth on the halftitle. [An Azimuth Book].

858. Pfeiffer, August / [M. Nicolao Polemanno, Lüneburg].

Disquisitio Prima De Lingua Ebraica (Respondente M. Nicolao Polemanno, Lüneburgensi) in: “Introductio In Orientem” sive Synopsis Quaestionum Nobiliorum De Origine, Natura, usu et Adminiculis Lingg. (Linguae) Orientalium et Plerarumque Extra Europam: Ebraicae, Chaldaicae, Syriacae, Samaritanae, Punicae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Armenicae, Persicae, Turcicae, Copticae, Iberiae, Sinicae, Japonicae, Congensiae, Malaicae &c.

Editio Tertia. Jena, Heinrich Christoph Cröker, 1715. Klein Oktav. 24 nn., 190 Seiten plus 14 Seiten Index Literarum et Vocum Ebraicarum / Index Queastionum et rerum / Index Autorum //. Originaler Pappband der Zeit. Sehr guter Zustand der Originalausgabe. Kleine Läsur am Titelblatt (fachmännsich hinterlegt) / Excellent condition of this rare and early publication on the Hebrew Language.

859. Peters, Carl.

Peters, Die Deutsche Emin Pascha-Expedition. Mit 32 Vollbildern und 66 Textabbildungen von Rudolf Hellgrewe in Berlin, dem Portrait des Verfassers nach Franz von Lenbach und einer Karte in Farbendruck.

Zweites Tausend. München und Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1891. 16 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 560 pages. Large fold-out map within sleeve of rear pastedown showing the “Emin Pascha Expedition.” / Mit der grossformatigen Faltkarte in Kartentasche (im hinteren Einbanddeckel). Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine. Large pictorial on front board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Maroon coloured text-block edges. / Originaler, illustrierter Verlagsleinenband mit sehr dekorativer Einbanddeckel- und Einband-Ruecken-Illustration. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex libris of Mark Walder on front pastedown. University stamp on p.IV. Discreet bookseller’s label of ‘R. Oldenbourg, München’, at bottom corner of rear pastedown. Some browning to reverse of fold-out map. Interior is bright and clean with sharp corners. / Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Ganz kleiner Einriss am Vorsatzpapier.

860. Perry, Ralph Barton.

Economic Value and Moral Value.

First Edition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, [1916]. Octavo. pages 443 – 485. Original, stapled offprint. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Staples a little rusty but not bleeding.