11. The 9th Baltic Conference on Intellectual Cooperation (eds.)

Globalisation, Europe and Regional Identity. The 9th Baltic Conference on Intellectual Cooperation – 6 – 7 June 2003 – in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Vilnius, The 9th Baltic Conference on Intellectual Cooperation, 2004. 17 x 25 cm. 155 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with minimal signs of wear.

12. National Economic and Social Council.

Ireland in the European Community – Performance, prospects and strategy. [Including an essay: The Influence of the Growth Rate of the UK Economy in Ireland].

Dublin, National Economic and Social Council, [1989]. 24 cm. xvii, 574 pages with diagrams etc. Softcover. Stamp on cover. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [National Economic and Social Council publications; no. 88].

13. National Economic and Social Council.

Ireland in the European Community – Performance, prospects and strategy. [Including an essay: The Influence of the Growth Rate of the UK Economy in Ireland].

Dublin, National Economic and Social Council, [1989]. 24 cm. xvii, 574 pages with diagrams etc. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [National Economic and Social Council publications; no. 88].

14. Austria – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Austria – With Vignettes of Vienna, Return of the Sennerin, and St. Stephen’s, Vienna.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J.H. Kernot. London, Edinburgh & Dublin, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 33 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

15. Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

16. Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

17. Beale, S. Sophia.

The Amateur’s Guide to Architecture. With Numerous Illustrations.

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece with guard, X, 180 pages. Numerous engraved illustrations throughout text. Prize-Binding in beautifully bound Hardcover (full navy morocco) with gilt lettering on red title-label on spine with raised bands and gilt-tooled decoration to compartments. Gilt amorial stamp of Wimborne Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth’s School) embossed on front board. Ornate gillt ruling board edges. Marvelously marbled pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With protecive mylar. Few very small abrasions to leather at spine only. Crack to gutter between front endapers. Binding still good and firm. Some very minor foxing to otherwise clean and bright interior. Dated (July 1909) inscription from A.D.H Allan, Headmaster, and discreet stamps on front endpapers

18. McCormick, Michael.

Origins of the European Economy – Communications and Commerce A.D. 300-900.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 26 cm. xxviii, 1101 pages with illustrations, maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Name of preowner on endpaper. Few minor entries to rear endpaper. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and this edition more valuable because its dustjacket is in the protective Mylar that allows handling without losing the value of the expensive Volume.

19. France – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

France – With Vignettes of the Palais Royal, Calais Harbour, Palace of Fontainebleau and the Bridge of Toulouse.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by J. Wray and engravings by J.B. Rogers. London, Edinburgh & Dublin. J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 31.5 cm x 25.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

20. Hungary – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Hungary – With Vignettes of Pesth and the Fortress of Buda [Budapest] and Depictions of Hungarian Nobles, the Danube and Hungarian Peasants.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H.Warren and engravings by J.Rogers. London & New York, John Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32 cm x 25.6 cm. Sheet Size: 37.4 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.