5501. [Hedouin, Edmond / Boilvin, Emile] Book of Wisdom.

The Song of Songs [The Song of Solomon / Das Hohelied Salomos]. With 26 etchings from designs by Edmond Hedouin and Emile Boilvin. From Designs by BIDA.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. 25 cm x 32 cm. 47 pages of verses juxtaposed to 24 fine etchings, the additional two etchings are the frontispiece and a smaller signet etching to the titlepage. All of the fine etchings mounted to stiff paper. Original hardcover / Decorative quarter morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very few of the etchings with foxing. Very good condition of this extremely rare edition (no.129 of 250 copies only) with only very minor signs of external wear / some rubbing to the binding and bumping to the corners. Some corners very slightly fingerstained and with a hint of a faded dampstain. Name of former owner on endpaper: “Martin F. Jackson – 501 – 5 ave. New York City”.

5502. Bentham, George.

Handbook of the British Flora. A description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the British Isles for the use of beginners and amateurs.

London, Lowell Reeve, 1896. 20 cm. LXXX, 600 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, for example, some rubbing and fading of outer spine.

5503. National Economic Development Council.

The Future Pattern of Shopping.

London, H.M.S.O., 1971. 25cm. X,112 pages. Illustrations, including maps and plans, in black and white. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing and fading of spine.

5504. Reynolds, Trefor Jenkins, Kent, Lewis E.

Structural Steelwork for Building and Architectural Students.

9th edition. London, English Universities Press, 1948. 14 cm x 22 cm. XII, 344 pages. Illustrations, including tables, plates and fold-out map, in black and white. Original illustrated hardcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. For example, rubbing and fading of spine and some discolouration to and staining of front cover. Spine has also noticeably detached at inside page.

5505. Ernst, Earle.

The Kabuki Theatre.

Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1974. 24 cm. XXVII, 296 pages. Illustrated with 38 pages of plates. Original illustrasted softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. An East-West center book.

5506. Nakamura, Matazo.

Kabuki, Backstage, Onstage. An Actor’s Life. Translated by Mark Oshima.

First Edition. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 1990. 23 cm. 164 pages. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Original hardcover with illustrated hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5507. Barnard, Mary.

Time and the White Tigress. Illustrated by Anita Bigelow.

Portland, Or, Breitenbush Publications, 1986. 23 cm. 79 pages. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the author to Erik Haugaard, Danish-born American writer, best known for children’s books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.

5508. Tazawa, Yutaka et. al.

Japan’s Cultural History: A Perspective.

Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1973. 22 cm. 120 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5509. Rimer, J. Thomas et. al.

Shisendo: Hall of the Poetry Immortals.

First edition. New York, Weatherhill, 1991. 26 cm. VIII, 214 pages. 72 pages of plates. Original softcover. Good condition with stronger signs of external wear. There is a slight dampstain at the bottom of title page to page 24.

5510. Cavling, Henrik.

Paris. Skildringer fra det moderne Frankrig.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1899. 16 cm x 23 cm. 470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some noticeable rubbing and discolouration of spine.