6811. Taylor, Peter.

The Old Forest and Other Stories.

First Edition [First Impression]. New York, The Dial Press, 1985. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 358 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6812. Anonymus.

An Historical Review and Directory of North America: Containing a Geographical, Political, and Natural History of the British and Other European Settlements, the United and Apocryphal States, the General State of the Laws, particularly those affecting Commerce, Foreign and British Debts; also, Strictures upon Lord Sheffield’s Treatise upon American Commerce to which is added “A description of the Interior Parts of North America, general Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers and the most noted Towns, Cities, Seats and Public Buildings. A Plan of the Roads and a concise account of the different Indian Nations. A copious Index to American State Papers. With a Great Variety of Tables necessary to all Merchants in their Intercourse with North America. [With a concise Account of the Island of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, together with the Manners, Customs, Policies and Trade of the Inhabitants and a short account of the Whale Fishery]. By a Gentleman immediately returned from a Tour of that Continent.

Volume II (of II). Cork, Printed by W. Matthews, 38 North-Main-Street, 1801. 10 cm x 17 cm. IX, 377 pages. Original Hardcover (full calf). The original binding with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Endpapers and pastedowns a little scruffy. Otherwise in very good condition.

6813. Merker, M.

Die Masai [Maasai] – Ethnographische Monographie eines ostafrikanischen Semitenvolkes. Mit 89 Figuren, 6 Tafeln, 61 Abbildungen und einer Uebersichtskarte [Allgemeine Uebersichtskarte der Wohngebiete des Massaivolkes (heutiges Maasai Mara vormals Olbruggo, Loita, Kisongo) /.

Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1904. Quart. XVI, 421, [2] Seiten plus 6 Tafeln (davon zwei farbige Tafeln und eine farbige Faltkarte) im Anhang. Hardcover / Originales Ganzleinen mit dekorativer und vergoldeter Beschriftung auf dem Einbanddeckel und Ruecken. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur wenigen Gebrauchsspuren. Ehemaliges Exemplar des Geographischen Instituts Mannheim. Mit handschriftlichem Besitzvermerk von Otto Hug, Fringa, Deutsch-Ostafrika, Mai 1906.

6814. Porter, Eliot.

Baja California and the Geography of Hope. With Lines from Octavio Paz. Text by Joseph Wood Krutch. Edited by Kenneth Brower. Foreword by David Brower.

First Edition. San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1967. 35cm x 27cm. 170, (1) pages with 73 breathtaking colour-plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear to the jacket.

6815. Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) / Ó Liatháin, Séan.

Saontacht an Athar De Brún – The Innocence of Father Brown. Seán Ó Liatháin d’aistrigh ón mBéarla.

First gaelic Edition. Baile Átha Cliath [i.e. Dublin], Oifig díolta foillseacháin rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. [6], 335, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. 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 !

6816. Porter, Jane.

Flatha na h-Alban. – [Gaelic translation of “The Scottish Chiefs” [William Wallace]]. Domhnall Ó Grianna, translator.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. 546 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by VP (Victor Penney). 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 !

6817. [Bonnard, Pierre] Anet, Claude.

Notes Sur L’Amour. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard and engraved by Yvonne Mailliez.

Exemplaire non numéroté sur Alfa bouffant. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1922. 26cm x 21.3cm. 74 pages. With beautiful, intimate illustrations. Hardcover / Modern half cloth with marbled-paper-covered-boards in slipcase. Bound with the original wrappers Excellent condition.

6818. [English History Collection] – Anonymous [Frederick Corbin Lukis] [Naturalist / Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].

Rambles among the Channel Islands. By a Naturalist.

[First Edition]. London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [c. 1855]. 18 cm. Frontispiece – engraving of the Rocks at Moulin Huet (Guernsey), VIII, 386 pages with many illustrations (wood engravings) of Harbour at St.Peter Port, Guernsey / St.Sampson’s Harbour / St.Helier Harbour, Jersey / Rocks at Greve de Lecq, Jersey, St.Brelade’s Bay etc. etc. Hardcover / Original decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed wiith a private giftinscription on endpaper: “To my Darling Agnes on her Birthday from her loving Father [?], 5th August 1869”.

6819. Heard, Vida / Faull, Lesley.

Cookery in Southern Africa. [With a racist chapter called: “Our colourful People – How they have influenced our cooking” – “Cape Coloureds (half-Castes)” – Bantu Food and Eating Customs / The Cape Malays / African Spinach / Utshwala – Traditional Beer as made in Swaziland / Chicken Buriyani / Indian Pastry / Rice with Dahl etc.] Traditional and Today.

(Cape Town), Books of Africa, 1970. 23 cm. 547 pages with numerous illustrations. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6820. Jeffreys, Sir Harold / [Norman Robert Campbell].

Original Offprint – Review by British Mathematician and Astronomer, Sir Harold Jeffreys, on two books on Relativity and Physics by Norman Robert Campbell: “Physics, the Elements” and “Modern Electrical Theory – Chapter XVI: “Relativity”.

Philosophical Magazine, 1923, Octavo. 4 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear. From the library of Percy Bridgman student, Gerald Holton.