8251. De Bourdeille, Messire Pierre.

Memoires De Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, Contenans Les Vies de Dames Galantes de fon temps.

Volume I et II en un volume. Amsterdam, Chez Jean de la Tourterelle, M.DC.LXXXIX [1689]. 8,5 cm x 14 cm. 358 pages, 408 pages. Hardcover / Original vellum. A tear to bottom of spine, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookplate to pastedown.

8252. Leger, Louis.

La Russie Intellectuelle. Études et Portraits.

Paris, Jean Maisonneuve & Fils, 1914. Gr.-8°. 299 pages. Reliure originale. Tres Bon état. Paper uncut ! / Exceptional condition.

8253. Madox Ford, Ford.

Buckshee. With introductions by Robert Lowell and Kenneth Rexroth.

First Edition. Cambridge, Pym-Randall Press, 1966. 21cm x 14.2cm. 27 (2) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8254. Salda, F.X. / Obrtel, Vit.

Nejmladsi Poesii Ceské. Dve Prednaskaya Dve Stati.

Praze / Prague, O. Girgal, 1928. Octavo. 105 pages. Original, illustrated softcover, designed by Vit Obrtel, in protective collector’s mylar. First edition in publisher’s printed wrappers – Typography of the wrappers by Vit Obrtel. A very good copy, starting upper hinge, some browning.

8255. Wittgenstein, Ludwig / Durand, Guy (translator).

Le Cahier Bleu et le Cahier Brun.

France, Gallimard, 1965. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. XIX, 428 pages. Original softcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

8256. Fox, Gustavus Vasa.

Russian Account of the Official Mission to Russia of Hon.G.V.Fox in 1866.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1867. 8°. 38 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Some light foxing only.

8257. Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Dve prazske povidky. [Zwei Prager Geschichten] Preklad Jan Löwenbach.

Erste tschechische Ausgabe. Praha / Prague, Nakladem J. Otty V Praze, 1908. Small Octavo. 123 Seiten. Hier liegen beide Einbandvarianten dieser seltenen Rilke – Erstausgabe vor. Original Hardcover und die Ausgabe in illustrierter Broschur. Beide Ausgaben in Mylar. First Czech translation of the “Zwei Prager Geschichten.” / Erste tschechische Ausgabe von Rilke’s “Zwei Prager Geschichten” / Das Vorsatzblatt und Titelblatt der Hardcover-Ausgabe etwas angeraendert. / Very fresh binding ! Very good+, with some fraying to the brittle endpaper and titlepage. / Both binding-variations of this very rare Rilke publication / Signed by a preowner (not Rilke) on the cover of the softcover-edition.

8258. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.

Sonnets from the Portuguese. With an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer and With Decorations for this Edition by Valenti Angelo.

New York, The Heritage Press, 1948. 24 cm x 31.5 cm. 44 pages. Original Hardcover with slipcase. Excellent condition of the Volume itself with stronger signs of external wear to the slipcase.

8259. Kirkup, James.

The Love of Others.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1962. 20.2cm x 13.5cm. 319 (2) pages with the beautiful printed dedication: “To someone, somewhere”. Original Hardcover with original illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

8260. Lehmann, Ernst A.

Auf Luftpatrouille und Weltfahrt. Erlebnisse eines Zeppelinfühers in Krieg und Frieden. Von Luftschiffkapitän Ernst A. Lehmann. Mit 67 Abbildungen. Herausgegeben von Leonhard Adelt.

Leipzig, Schmidt & Günther, 1936. 8°. 408 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband mit dem ganz seltenen, illustrierten Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag. Exlibris im Innendeckel.