491. Shoemaker, Michael Myers.

Palaces Prisons and Resting Places of Mary Queen of Scots.

No 26 of 375 Numbered Copies. London, H. Virtue and Company Limited, 1902. 37 cm x 29 cm. 196 pages. With 8 full page photo gravures, 24 full page plates and 30 textual illustrations. Original, parchment covered Softcover with supralibro to frontcover. Very good copy in the original white vellum covers. Only slightly foxed.

492. [Sisley, Alfred] Steves, MaryAnne / Cahn, Isabelle.

Alfred Sisley. Edited by MaryAnne Stevens ; with contributions by Isabelle Cahn and [five] others.

London, Royal Academy of Art, [1992]. 29 cm. 304 pages with illustrations (black and white, colour). Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

493. Sitwell, Sacheverell.

Southern Baroque Art – A Study of Painting, Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th and 18th Centuries. With 16 illustrations.

Third Edition. London, Duckworths Georgian Library, 1931. 14.5cm x 22cm. 319 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear (some rubbing to upper spine and corners). Binding firm.

494. Skinner, David.

Wallpaper in Ireland 1700 – 1900.

Tralee, Churchill House Press, 2014. Quarto (25 cm 216 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent, as new condition. A fantastic, extremly important and now very (very !) rare publication.

495. Società Rododendro.

Bollettino della Società Rododendro [ogni numero compresa una sezione / each issue including a section: “Sezione Automobilistica” / Compreso il numero unico “Paganella” per l’anno 1905 / With the extra number for 1905 “Paganella”].

Five Volumes (bound in 2). Trento, Società Rododendro / Scotoni & Viiti, 1904-1908. 21 cm x 30 cm. Vol.1-2, 200 pages / Vol.3-5, 240 pages. Monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout both volumes. Beautifully illustrated coloured paper issue covers in Vol.1-2. Fold-out map of ‘Val Nambino, Val Agola e Val Dalgone’ in Vol.3-5. Hardcover / Excellent, contemporary library Buckram with gilt lettering on spine / Illustrazione delle copertine [Art Nouveau] di Tevini e Vitti / [Original, beautifully decorative wrappers with art nouveau cover-art by Tevini and Vitti bound within]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some occasional abrasions to the brochure – covers bound within. Interior unmarked. Binding strong and firm. Alpine Club stamps throughout. / Includes many pages with advertising on early car travel / Advertising for “Puch”, “Adler” and “Neckarsulmer” Motociclette / Local Advertising for tourism in the italian Trento [Trient / Alto Adige / Suedtirol] /

496. [Sørensen, Arne Haugen] Saabye, Marianne.

Leda’s Transformation. From Paper to Fresco. Arne Haugen Sørensen Sketches for the Decoration of Folketeatret in 1991.

[Denmark], Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling, 1991. 22.6 cm x 28 cm. 93 pages. With 50 watercolour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor wear to the cover. Endpapers contain minor colour transference from cover. Otherwise very bright and clean.

497. [Somerville & Ross] / Verling, John / [Edith Somerville & Violet Martin].

Somerville & Ross – Portfolio of ten (10) original, large Etchings by John Verling [signed].

Ballydehob / Schull, John Verling & Schull Books, 1984. Folio – Sheets (38.2 cm x 28.5 cm). Ten original etchings in bespoke Folder with original tissue-guards. Original Hardcover-Folder with one additional, signed inlay-etching to frontcover. The ten etchings and the folder with the original inlay-art, are all in mint condition. The etchings all protected by their original tissue guards. A stunning publication of a wonderful West Cork – Artist. A must-have for all collector’s of rare and signed Somerville & Ross collectables, this find is simply an unusual occurance because the artwork was originally designed to be framed. One usually never finds this edition with the artwork still in its original folder !

498. 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).

499. [Sotheby’s] Adamopoulos, Konstantin / König, Kasper (Redaktion).

Benefiz-Auktion zur Rettung des Portikus Frankfurt. Hotel Frankfurter Hof, Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt/M. Donnerstag, 9.juni 1994, 20.00 Uhr.

Frankfurt Am Main, Portikus, 1994. 27 cm x 21 cm. 192 seiten. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen und farbigen Abbildungen und Illustrationen. Original Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

500. Southby, Logi.

The White Dragon. Written and illustrated by L. Southby.

London, Rich & Cowan, 1934. 24 cm x 30 cm. 265 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition rare first edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight rubbing to outer spine.