81. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

82. Bolster, John / [Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph] / Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L.E.L.]/ Sloane, Hans.

Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine. Volume I. No. I (February, 1826) – Volume I. No. IV (November, 1826).

Cork, John Bolster, Patrick Street, 1826. Octavo. VIII, 394 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the boards and corners. Interior very good with only occasional signs of foxing. A very rare Cork publication with some extremely scarce, often anonymously published essays on local history, poetry etc. The publications signed with J.J.C. are by Corkonian Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. Name of 19th century preowner on endpaper: “Michael Higgins”.

83. [Calder, Alexander] / Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°69-70 – Octobre-Novembre 1954. [With three (3) fantastic double-page Colour-Lithographs (including cover)][Poeme Offert a Alexander Calder et a Louisa (par Henri Pichette)] / With an Essay: “″Calder” par Frank Elgar.

First Edition. Paris, Editions Pierre A Feu – Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1954. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). Two double-pages with Lithographic frontcover and rear cover. Plus two double-page Lithographs loosely inserted. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

84. [Calder, Alexander] / Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°113 – 1959. [With two (2) fantastic, original double-page lithographs of “Stabiles”]. Avec Essais: “STABILES” par Georges Salles / “LE LURON AUX PROTEGE-GENOUX” par Jean Davidson.

First Edition. Paris, Editions Pierre A Feu – Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1959. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 28 pages (Text paginated and each double-page-Lithograph counts as 4 pages). Plus photographic front- and rear-cover with portrait-photograph of Alexander Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

85. Greene, Graham.

The End of the Affair.

London / Melbourne / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. Octavo. 237 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. This Book also includes the rare original advertising-strip identifying this book as the Book of the Month-Choice of the Daily Mail. Very good + condition with mild foxing as usual. The dustjacket with splits, some fraying and some minor loss to upper spine but mostly complete. Very Rare with the Daily Mail wrapper.

86. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.

First Tauchnitz Copyright Edition [1st of May 1902]. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. Small Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / Private half-leather of the Haugaard-Family in Denmark with Initials of Erik Haugaard’s grandfather stamped into board and on titlepage. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear, presenting as some rubbing to the spine. With three minor manuscript entries to the last page: “Leest” [Translating from Danish as “Read”]: I. le Juni 1902 / II. 8 Nvbr 1933 / 3. 6 MRTS.1945. Extremely rare, published shortly (only five weeks) after the True First Book-Edition. Rare in this excellent condition. From the private library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator, Erik Haugaard, with his Exlibris to the pastedown. [Tauchnitz edition – Collection of British Authors, Vol. 3571].

87. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Notions in Garrison. [SIGNED by Edith Somerville]. Illustrated Edith Œ. S[omerville].

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1941. Octavo (17.8 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). IX, 134 pages with ten illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The very rare dustjacket with some fraying and staining. Beautifully signed by Edith Somerville on the titlepage.

88. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. [Inscribed / Signed by Violet Martin] Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from ‘Sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville’.

London, W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1893. 19.8cm x 13cm. vii, 200 (33) pages with several illustrations. Original publisher’s binding (the red cloth variant),decoratively illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Good condition still with the binding shaky and the cover stroonger rubbed. Front free endpaper sellotaped. One of the very rare occasions in which Violet Martin signed with her full name, a few months prior to the books official publication in November 1892. Very rare, early Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (Violet Martin) title !

89. Sheridan, Thomas / [Benjamin Franklin (mentioned as Subscriber with his address as Ambassador in Paris) / George Washington (mentioned as Subscriber)].

A General Dictionary of the English Language – One main Object of which, is, to establish a plain and permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To which is Prefixed A Rhetorical Grammar. Dedicated to the Volunteers of Ireland. [Including a List of Subscribers mentioning among others also: “Benjamin Franklin (Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, at Paris, who ordered 20 copies)” / Mentioning also as Subscriber: “His Excellency General George Washington, Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States of North America”)].

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by P.Wogan at The Old Bridge and P.Byrne, College-Green, 1784. Octavo (14 cmx 21 cm). [10], LXIX, 825 [unnumbered] pages. Including a lenghty section mentioning the Irish Subscribers to this Dictionary with name and town. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original, red spine-label with gilt lettering. In protective Mylar. Binding rubbed and with some minor loss to leather. The binding firm and strong and endpapers and pastdeowns intact and NOT cracked ! Small signs of a faded dampstain without any consequence to the very good condition throughout. One page with a tear (Letter G). The unpaginated section was collated as complete.

90. [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.