7211. Macready, General – The Rt. Hon. Sir Nevil.

Annals of an Active Life. With sixteen Illustrations.

Two Volumes. London, Hutchinson & Co., [c.1924]. Octavo. Frontispiece, 694 pages [continuous pagination through both volumes]. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7212. Norman, Haskell F.

One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine.

New York, The Grolier Club, 1995. Folio. XLII, 390, (2) pages. Original Hardcover (cloth) in custom made slipcase. Excellent, close to new condition.

7213. O’Brien, Niall.

Blackwater and Bride – Navigation and Trade, 7000 BC to 2007 [This book is dedicated to the landowners, merchants and sailors who made navigation and trade possible on the Blackwater and Bride Rivers].

Niall O’Brien Publishing, 2008. Octavo. XII, 562 pages with plenty of illustrations throughout the volume. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Absolutely mint condition. SIGNED and dated by the author on the endpaper. Extremely Rare Book !!

7214. FUNDAÇÃO BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO.

22 Bienal Internacional de São Paulo – “SALAS ESPECIAIS”.

Sao Paulo, Fundacio Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1994. Large – Quarto (31 cm wide x 31 cm high). 478 pages / Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. The heavy bookblock slightly detached from the binding. Still overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7215. Ghouchani, A. (Abdullah).

Inscriptions on Nishabur Pottery. Introduction by M.Y.Kiani.

Bilingual in English and Farsi. Tehran, Reza Abbasi Museum, 1986. Quarto. 16 pages text plus 140 plates with explanatory text for illustrations of the pottery. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Bookblock slightly broken, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7216. Wilde, Oscar.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3.3. [Oscar Wilde].

Later Edition of the First Edition [7th printing of June 1899]. London, Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8°. 31 pages. Original Hardcover (Quarter cloth with mustard boards). Unusually excellent condition of the binding but with some stronger signs of occasional foxing to the text and the edges (several pages are entirely without foxing) with only very minor signs of external wear. Bookplate of film-critic Leonie Graetz (Exlibris was made by the artist Hermann Westphal) to the front pastedown.

7217. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

7218. [Hofland, Barbara] / Hofland, Mrs. [Barbara Wreakes].

Ellen, The Teacher – A Tale for Youth.

A New Edition. London, John Harris, c.1840. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, 185 pages plus two unnumbered pages of a catalogue of books published by Barbara Hofland [″The following Works, written by the same AUthor, may be had of the Publisher”]. Hardcover / Original half-leather of the time with gilt lettering on spine. Binding rubbed and corners bumped strongly. Binding very firm and fully intact. Some browning and pencil – marks inside. Very Rare publication by one of the most successful female authors of children’s books, educational and moral stories in the early 19th century.

7219. Kelleher, D.L.

The Glamour of the West. [Inscribed by Eimar O’Duffy’s father Kevin O’Duffy, to his daughter Ita Kevin O’Duffy in May/ 1936].

Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1928. 18,5 cm x 13 cm. 123 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Beige cloth boards with black lettering.

7220. [Kingerlee, John] Pillsbury, Edmund P.

The Whole Planet is a Garden – The Genius of John Kingerlee. [SIGNED with a little drawing and his full name by the Artist] By Edmund P. Pillsbury – With contributing Essays by K.J. Baysa, Jonathan Benington, Marianne Berardi, John Calder, Margarita Cappock, Ros Drinkwater, Alannah Hopkin, Rita Kelly, Brian Lynch, Brian McAvera, Dominique Nahas, Deirdre Purcell, Richard Vine, Lilly Wei, Michael Wilson, William Zimmer.

DPM Solutions, 2010. 4°. 328 pages with an original DVD showing John Kingerlee working in his studio during a visit of Edmund P. Pillsbury. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Signed by the artist John Kingerlee in unusual fashion. Excellent condition.