7411. Casey, Christine.

Making Magnificence – Architects, Stuccatori And the Eighteenth-Century Interior.

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2017. Quarto (22 cm wide x 28 cm). X, 316 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. MINT CONDITION / Excellent, as new condition in original shrinkwrap of the publisher. Nearly impossible to find in this condition. This book is NOT SIGNED !!!

7412. [Oxford University-History / The Bodleian Library] Best & Lloyd Limited.

Architectural Lighting. [Extremely Rare Art Deco Lighting Catalogue of Best & Lloyd Limited – With several imgae sof Lighting applied to Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street as well as the image of “The Bodleian Library now lit by artificial light for the First Time since its foundation” (this dates the catalogue to 1929/1930)].

London, The Kynoch Press, [Best & Lloyd Limited, Handsworth – Birmingham and 40 Gt. Marlborough St.], no year (c.1929/1930). Octavo (19 cm wide x 25.4 cm high). 63 pages with numerous photographs of Art Deco Lights, Art Deco Lighting products, Art Deco Lighting Fixtures, etc. Original Hardcover. Spine slightly damaged / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7413. Moschetti, [Prof. Allesandro].

Roma – [Original 19th century Tourist Guide with 40 (forty) Lithographic Plates on Rome in Piranesi-style / Rome in Antiquity].

[Rome], Incisioni del Prof. Moschetti, Epoca 1822. Small Octavo. 40 illustrations as Leporello. Original, blindstamped Hardcover with illustrated cover. With the original bands fully intact. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare Piranesiesque Guide, including the famous Pyramide (Caio Cestio) and Veduti.

7414. [Hays, Mary] Wedd, A.F.

The Fate of the Fenwicks – Letters to Mary Hays (1798-1828).

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1927. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 22 cm high). XVI, 248 pages (including Appendix and Index) plus 8 pages of a book-catalogue to the rear “Methuen’s General Literature”. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The spine detaching. The binding otherwise firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor signs of foxing. A very, very rare book !!

7415. Hickey, Patrick.

Famine in West Cork. The Mizen Peninsula, Land and People, 1800-1852. A local study of pre-famine and famine Ireland.

Cork, Mercier Press, 2002. 16 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 424 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket with signs of wear. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely Rare, out-of-print-title. The ultimate copy, signed and with a gift-inscription from Patrick Hickey to Rosscarbery Bookdealer Cal [Hyland] and with two original, very rare and controversial newspaper-clippings which constituted a dispute about facts in the book between Patrick Hickey and irish journalist Eoghan Harris.

7416. Sartre, Jean-Paul / de Beauvoir, Simone / Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Beckett, Samuel / etc.

Les Temps Modernes [Modern Times]. Revue Mensuelle. 2e année – No. 14 (Novembre 1946).

Paris, Les Temp Modernes [Gallimard (1945-1948)], 1946. Octavo. Original Softcover / Reliure Originale (Broche / Printed Wrapper). Frayed and damaged spine. Wrapper detached !

7417. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

7418. Mahon, Derek.

Against The Clock [Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2018. 8°. 79 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon: “for Peter with best wishes – Derek, Dec. ‘18”.

7419. Mahon, Derek.

Red Sails [Signed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2014. 8°. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed by Derek Mahon. With a minor manuscript-correction of a Typo by Derek Mahon on page 83.

7420. Farkas, Lidia / Poharnok, Zoltan / Shires, Frances (Translator).

Sly Mike: A Hungarian Story – With ten original, coloured etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. English Translation by Frances Shires.

No.115 of a signed, limited Edition of 250 copies. Budapest, Published by Dr.George Vajna & Co., (1937). Small Quarto (17.5 cm wide x 23 cm high). 44 unnumbered pages (inlcuding the etchings). The book is signed by both artists, Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Hardcover / Original, embroidered binding. Some foxing to binding but the endpapers intact and the binding in overall very good condition. All etchings in excellent condition. A wonderful, rare example of a very rare book !