7631. Norris-Newman, Charles L.

In Zululand With The British Throughout the War of 1879.

London, W. H. Allen 1880. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 343 pages. Illustrated throughout with portraits. Includes the vintage photograph of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (including tissue-guard), 3 fold-out plans. With the often missing large fold-out Military Map of Zulu Land and Adjacent Parts of Natal and Transvaal. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design on front board. First layer, with frontispiece, slightly detached. Otherwise in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean, with very minor spotting near front. Ink markings to first page of first chapter. Bookplate / Exlibris of Davenport House (Bridgnorth) to front pastedown with the printed motto “Audentes Fortuna Junat”. Extremely rare, rather scarce and even scarcer with the large folding-map included !

7632. Josephson, Hans.

Portfolio – A Project conceived by Kilimanjaro in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth and Lismore Castle Arts, published on occasion of Hans Josephson’s exhibition at Lismore Castle, Ireland (12 May – 30 September, 2012).

Lismore, 2012. Large – Folio (30 cm wide x 42.5 cm high). Loosely inserted is a Pamphlet of four publications (Essays and Interviews in newspaper-size), center-fold within the pamphlet is a colour-spread-photograph of a sculpture by Hans Josephson, loosely inserted into the Portfolio is another Pamphlet (a large, folded newspaper-style publication called “documentation”), subtitled: “Events, materials, works and locations involved in the development of the work of the sculptor Hans Josephson and his exhibition at Lismore Castle Arts, finally, an additional, folded newspaper-style pamphlet, dedicated to one sculpture. Original Hardcover Portfolio with large pamphlets inside. The Portfolio excellent in its exterior but with foxing inside. The loosely oinserted pamphlets are all like new !

7633. Brockbank, Oliver.

Diary of a Journey through the Sinai Peninsula and Arabia in 1914. [Probably the author’s own copy with underlining, replacement-suggestions of paragraphs and annotations with penciled manuscript-corrections throughout the book and additions in red ink / Also two additional photographs of the journey mounted onto the front and rear pastedown].

London, Private, 1916, 14 cm x 21 cm. 78 pages. 16 sepia plates and external fold-out map. Original Hardcover. Cloth bound with gilt debossed lettering to cover. Deckled egdes. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed. Map detached from binding.

7634. Petrie, George / [Douglas Bland Hague Provenance].

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland – Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Comprising: An Essay On The Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by M.H.Gill, 1845. Quarto (26 cm wide x 30 cm high). XIX, 521 pages with hundreds of text-illustrations on Round Towers and Antiquities in Ireland. Original Hardcover with original spine-label of the Royal Irish Academy. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Historian Douglas Bland Hague ( (1917-1990), with his library-stamp to the font free endpaper. [The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy – Volume XX].

7635. Marx, Karl.

Capital – A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production [Working copy of Harvard Economist Edmund Earle Lincoln] Translated from the Third German Edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and Edited by Friedrich Engels.

Thirteenth Edition (1909) of the first Edition 1886. London, William Glaisher, 1909. Octavo. XXXI, 816 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of eminent Harvard Economist and specialist on Inflation, Edmund Earle Lincoln (1888 – 1958), with his name in ink on the endpaper, and obviously bought during his his time at Oxford University in 1910, when he acquired his BA and continued to pursue his MA in 1914. This was obviously Lincoln’s working copy, with several markings in the text, especially in the section on “over-work” and child-labor.

7636. Collins, Wilkie / [Dustjacket – Design by Austin Molloy].

An Ré-Sheod – “The Moonstone” [Gaelic Edition with the rare dustjacket]. Ar n-a thionntódh go Gaedhilg do Mhícheál O Gríobhtha.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Octavo. 591 pages. Original Hardcover with the very scarce original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by Austin Molloy. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying and two closed tears but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely Rare with the dustjacket !

7637. Conrad, Joseph.

An Máirnéalach Dubh – The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. Joseph Conrad do scríobh sa Bhéarla bhunaidh; Seosamh Mac Grianna d’aistrigh go Gaedhilg.

[First gaelic edition]. Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. 19 cm. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by Austin Molloy. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying and a closed tear but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. One of the rarest titles of world-literature translated into gaelic. Extremely Rare with the dustjacket by Austin Molloy !

7638. [Saadi of Shiraz] Sa’di / Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi.

Golestan [Gulistan / Rose Garden] – Original 19th century printed version in Persian / Farsi with some contemporary manuscript notes in pencil. Complete title: Great praise and admiration be upon the Creator of the earth, human kind and spirit Infinite blessings and greetings to the God’s beloved court that in this time with the songs of nightingale in the magic and harmonious flower garden of Honourable Sheikh Saadi Shirazi, may God have mercy on him, and great acknowledgement of the book Golestan. Thanks to the great number of believers, God’s follower Qazi Ibrahim Hajji, the noble pious Hajji Qazi Nour Mohammad Milpabadi and Nour-e-Din Bin Heikhakhan, for the second time.

Bombay, In the Printing House Heydari, 1875. Octavo. 252 pages. Hardcover / Contemporary 19th century half leather with marbled paper-covered boards. It is clear from three consecutive little wholes to the bookblock that this version of the Rose Garden was previously bound as a blockbook and rebound in 19th century boards. First 9 and last 7 pages with a faded stain, possibly from the glue of a former wrapper. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some occasional manuscript notes in pencil in english.

7639. Tillotson, Dr. John.

The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. In Twelve Volumes containing Two Hundred and Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions: Together with the rule of Faith; Prayers composed by him for his own Use; And a Form of Prayer, composed by him, for the use of King William.

Twelve Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for R.Ware, A.Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T.Longman, R.Hett, C.Hitch, J.Hodges, S.Austen, J. and R. Tonson, J. and H. Pemberton, and J.Rivington, 1743. Octavo. Including the rare and often missing Frontispiece-Portrait of “His Grace John Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury (by Kneller and Gerard van der Gucht). Original Hardcover (full leather with original spine-labels and gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear, some faded signs of a dampstain to endpapers and very few tiny wormhole-damages to margins of very few Volumes. The very rare 12-Volume set (not the more common 10 Volumes). A rare set in this excellent condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

7640. [Cycling in Great Britain]

Collection of British Cycling and Touring Books and Maps. 1: J.G. Bartholomew, The Handy Touring Atlas of the British Isles / 2: Alexander Gross and F. Waite-Browne, The Premier Road Book of Great Britain / 3: ‘Cycles and Mopeds, Cycling Books of Maintenance / 4: Cycling Touring Club’s ‘Cycling’ [Know the Game Series] / 5: Cyclists’ Touring Club, ‘C.T.C. Handbook and Guide’ / 6: The Kuklos Annual and Handbook for Cyclists and other Roadfarers, 1925 / 7: Harold Briercliffe, Northern England / 8: Harold Briercliffe, Southern England, / 9: Philips New Series of County Maps – Surrey / 10: Bartholomew’s Reduced Survey Map of Dorset / 11: Bartholomew’s Reduced Survey Map of South Devon / 12: Bartholomew’s Reduced Survey Map of York and Scarborough / 13: ‘Cycling Map of the Midlands’ published by E.J. Larby / 14: Wincarins Motor & Cyclist Map of England (in Sixteen Sections)

14 volumes – 8 books, 4 Leporellos and 2 large fold-out maps. London, East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Cheltenham, George Newnes / Educational Productions Limited / Temple Press Limited / Daily News Ltd, 1923 – 1952. 10.5 cm x 15.2 cm – 12.7 cm x 18.5 cm – 20 cm x 13.7 cm – 10.3 cm x 19.5 cm. Circa. 1,100 pages. Numerous colour fold-out maps and in-text maps and tables. Hardcover and softcover. All items in very good condition with a mixture of minor and some stronger signs of wear.