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223 untrimmed and partly unopend pages. - Publisher's titled softcover with gentle ornament at frontpanel; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 12 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; EXEMPLAIRE 'S.P.'(Service de Presse), INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ''Pour Claude Bourdet / en respectueux hommage / . . .'' at foretitle-page. - Cover slightly used; A VERY GOOD COPY.…

x, 159 (1) pages. - Publisher's illustrated softcover; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 12 cm). ~~~ FIRST POCKET-EDITION (1st. 1958), SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND MONOGRAMMED (most likely) BY EADON LILLEY ''To Alfred [Sohn-Rethel], with thanks for a memorable week. . .'' followed by an holograph italian proverb. - A VERY GOOD COPY. --- MANY MORE BOOKS FROM ALFRED SOHN-RETHELS PERSONAL LIBRARY incl. his heavily annotated own works - IN STOCK. . .…

(2, 2) 570 pages, with exhaustive Index at the end of Part 2. - Bibliophile gently gilt red half-morocco binding over 4 raised bands with marbled panels and gilt title at spine, all edges marbled in blue and black; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 15 x 4 cm; ca. 1 kg.). ~~~ FIRST EDITIONS, LEATHERBOUND ORIGINALS; THE VERY FIRST VOLUMES OF THE NEWLY FOUNDED PERIODICAL. - Inner frontpanel with large embossed and crowned exlibris 'Wilhelm Herzog [Duke] zu Braunschweig'. - Contains in Part 1: 'Prospectur', 'Introduction'; ARTICLES: I. 'Adresse à ses Concitoyens'(Roederer); II. 'Report of the Third Annual Meeting ot the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland', 'Manuscript Correspondance. . .', 'Le Polonnais', 'Kronika Emigracyi Polskiey'; III. 'First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, . . .', 'Appendix . . .', 'The Municipal Corporation Reformer No. 1 . . .'; IV. 'England, France, Russia and Turkey', 'The Sultan Mahmoud and Mehmet Ali Pasha', 'England, Ireland and America', 'Russia and Turkey, or Observations ont the Commercial and Political Relations of England with both'; V. 'Reports of the British Association, Vols. 1 and 2'; VI. Lord Brougham's Speech on presenting the London Petition against the Taxes on Knowledge in the House of Lords'; VII. Lord Henley's Plan of Church Reform', 'Letter to Lord Henry . . .'(Stephenson), 'What will the Bishops do?'; VIII. 'The Printing Machine'; IX. 'Treaty between His Majesty, the King of Great Britain, the Queen Regent of Spain, the King of the French and the Duke of Portugal, signed at London, April 22nd 1834', 'Additional Article . . .'; X. Address of Sir Robert Peel to the Electors of Tamworth'; XI. 'Postscript'. / and in Part 2: I. 'The Designs of Russia'(Evans); II. 'Education of the Aristocracy - Public Schools'; III. Memoir on the Political State and Prospects of Germany, confidentially communicated to several of the German Governments by Russia, 1834'; IV. A Report of the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science'; V. 'General Treaty of Vienna', Additional Treaty relating to the Cracow . . .'; VI. Greece and the Levant, or Diary of a Summer Excursion'(Burgess), 'Steam Voyage down the Danube'; VII. 'The Fudges in England'(Brown), 'Thoughts on the Ladies of the Aristoracy'(Tomkins); VIII. 'Travels in Bokhara'(Burnes); IX. Louis Philippe, les Doctrinaires et la France; Lois sur la Presse'; X. Minutes of Evidence taken in support of the Allegations of the several Petitions against the Bill intituled >An Act to provide for the Regulations of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales< . . .', 'Speech of Henry Lord Brougham in Defence of the absent Commissioners on the English Municipal Corporation Reform Bill. . .'; XI. Postscript to Article No. 3 on the Prussian Commercial League'. --- Top of spine with small inventory-sticker, corners minimally rubbed; a beautiful copy. - Also in stock from the same aristocratic library: Vol. II, containg Part 3, January-April 1836 (with excerpts of 'Tocqueville: Democracy in America', translated by Henry Reeve Esq.) and 4, [May-June 1836]. . .…

VI, 442 pages / 62 doublepage-size engraved geometric plates on strong paper with 450 decorative 'Figures'. - Bibliophile gilt-titled masterbindings in brown-quarter-morocco over 5 artificial raised bands with brown-red-gold marbled panels, large leather-corners and marbled enpapers; Folio (ca. 31 x 24 x 7 cm; ca. 4 kg.). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE LEATHERBOUND ORIGINALS; 2 VOLUMES, COMPLETE (a 'deuxième partie' has never been published). - Foretitles with tipped-in older holograph Name- and Adresslabels 'J. Wakulski, Professeur / 5 Ch. de Mormez / Lausanne (Suisse)' who was a much appreciated Poland-born teacher of Mathematics at 'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne' from 1912-1967 where he used to invite his new students with ''Soyez les bienvenus dans mon salon de mathématiques''(Welcome to my Mathematics-Fair). - Front endpapers with small collector's stamps 'Boekerij van Niekerk', dated 1976. --- Textvolume with slight foxing in the wide margins, first and last plates in the plate-volume as well; A BEAUTIFUL SET.…

47 untrimmed pages. - Publisher's light blue titled an ornamented paper-wrapper, bound in gilt-tiled brown halfleather-binding of later 19th century with orange-brown marbled panels, decoratively marbled stronger endpapers loose blue marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 22 x 14 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL OF THE RARE PAMPHLET; ISNCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ''à Monsieur Gilbere souvenir de . . . & constante Amitié . . .'' at top of the frontwrapper, inner frontpanel with older illustrated numismatic 'EX LIBRIS / A. JOUFFRAY' on fine paper. - Spine somewhat rubbed, frontwrapper left slightly spotty, foretitle minimally foxy, else only very few shallow foxing-spots towards the foreedge; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FRAGILE BOOKLET.…

63 pages. - Publisher's wrapper, later bound in marbles boards with gilt-titled spine (ExLibris: Kristian Setterwalls); 8vo. ~~~ First edition of Nyblaeus' second book, inscribed and signed by the author on the inner front-wrapper. - BEST CONDITION.

15, 238 (2) pages. - Binding of the period with thick green-red-etc. marbled panels and apparently late-19th century brown cloth-spine with hard-to-read ms. title, all edges red, green marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18,5 x 13 x 3 cm). ~~~ 18th CENTURY ORIGINAL WITH PROFESSIONALLY REBACKED SPINE; TITLEPAGE WITH HOLOGRAPH OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF THE PERIOD ''Ex bibliotheca josephi / Menuret D. M. M. / i regia scient. societ. momp. 1760'' AND OPPOSITE AT FORETITLE-PAGE VERSO TOP-LEFT IN THE SAME HANDWRITING ''ex dono autor. Msr. . . D. de la Caze''. - Ends of spine slightly frayed, foretitle with few small holes at center, titlepages slightly dusty, bottom-edge of first sheet somewhat wrinkled and with small - empty - wormhole through the whole book in the white margin (so at least one 'person' had read it.), pages slightly wavy throughout, OVERALL A GOOD COPY WITH A MEANINGFUL ASSOCIATION OF TWO IMPORTANT FRENCH PHYSICIANS OF THE 18th CENTURY, both with strong relations to the University of Montpellier ('Momp', see above). . .…

°°° *** FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL from the estate of Dick Higgins; INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY 'Karl' ''4 Dick / with all my / Love / . . . / 1/12/91''. - The fragile cover minimally used; A BEAUTIFUL COPY. isbn 0926935526.

(4) 258 / 246 (1) pages. - Blue cardboard-bindings of the period with manuscript spinelabels and red-speckled edges; small-4to.(ca. 20 x 13 x 3 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION OF THE 'Sm.-in-4to.'-EDITION (after the 12mo-edition in 1793) OF ROUSSEL'S ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED INDISCREET REPORTS on French 18th-century diplomatic and economic affairs, CONTEMPORARILY CARDBOARD-BOUND ORIGINALS; INNER FRONTPANELS WITH COPPER-ENGRAVED ARMORIAL EXLIBRIS OF THE PERIOD 'Ioannes Nicolaus de Ghisels / Scholasticus Leodiensis'(see 'Chr. Fr. Jacobi: Europäisches Genealogisches Handbuch: in welchem die neuesten Nachrichten . . ., Leipzig 1794; page 254, #24) and modern illustrated large-paper exlibris. - Bindings slightly rubbed and with shallow humiditystain at lower sharp-corner of frontpanels, bottom of very first and very last pages minimally spotty; around the old exlibris are a few red spot indicating that it once has been loosely covered by another tipped-in paper-sheet; OVERALL A VERY GOOD SET.…

25 pages. - Publisher's titled papercover; larg-8vo.(ca. 25 x 18 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, PAPERCOVER ORIGINAL; INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ''À Gustave Fougère. . .''. - Cover minimally used, else in best condition; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION.

24 unopened pages. - Publisher's decorated, titled papercover; 8vo.(ca. 23 x 16 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, PAPERCOVER ORIGINAL; INSCRIBED AND MONOGRAMMED BY THE AUTHOR ''À M. Albert Dumont, Directeur de l'Enseignt[!] supérieure. . .''. - Cover minimally used, else in best condition; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION.…

3 blank sheets; 32 unnumbered pages with text and 4 (3 wholepage, 1 red) silkscreen prints, 3 blank sheet; all on yellowish large Rives-Paper. - Illustrated red cloth ''handbound by Mary Ellen Chapdu'' with olive silk marker ribbon; oblong-Folio (ca. 26 x 34 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL FROM THE LIBRARY OF DICK HIGGINS parts of which were sold in Germany; NO. 7 OF 101 PRINTED COPIES INSCRIBED ''for Dick / from Jonathan / Highlands 1976''. - Binding slightly spotty, content in best condition; A NICE ASSOCIATION.…

°°° FIRST EDITIONS, LEATHERBOUND ORIGINALS; THE VERY FIRST VOLUMES OF THE NEWLY FOUNDED PERIODICAL. - Inner frontpanel with large embossed and crowned exlibris 'Wilhelm Herzog [Duke] zu Braunschweig'. - Contains in Part 1: 'Prospectur', 'Introduction'; ARTICLES: I. 'Adresse à ses Concitoyens'(Roederer); II. 'Report of the Third Annual Meeting ot the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland', 'Manuscript Correspondance. . .', 'Le Polonnais', 'Kronika Emigracyi Polskiey'; III. 'First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, . . .', 'Appendix . . .', 'The Municipal Corporation Reformer No. 1 . . .'; IV. 'England, France, Russia and Turkey', 'The Sultan Mahmoud and Mehmet Ali Pasha', 'England, Ireland and America', 'Russia and Turkey, or Observations ont the Commercial and Political Relations of England with both'; V. 'Reports of the British Association, Vols. 1 and 2'; VI. Lord Brougham's Speech on presenting the London Petition against the Taxes on Knowledge in the House of Lords'; VII. Lord Henley's Plan of Church Reform', 'Letter to Lord Henry . . .'(Stephenson), 'What will the Bishops do?'; VIII. 'The Printing Machine'; IX. 'Treaty between His Majesty, the King of Great Britain, the Queen Regent of Spain, the King of the French and the Duke of Portugal, signed at London, April 22nd 1834', 'Additional Article . . .'; X. Address of Sir Robert Peel to the Electors of Tamworth'; XI. 'Postscript'. / and in Part 2: I. 'The Designs of Russia'(Evans); II. 'Education of the Aristocracy - Public Schools'; III. Memoir on the Political State and Prospects of Germany, confidentially communicated to several of the German Governments by Russia, 1834'; IV. A Report of the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science'; V. 'General Treaty of Vienna', Additional Treaty relating to the Cracow . . .'; VI. Greece and the Levant, or Diary of a Summer Excursion'(Burgess), 'Steam Voyage down the Danube'; VII. 'The Fudges in England'(Brown), 'Thoughts on the Ladies of the Aristoracy'(Tomkins); VIII. 'Travels in Bokhara'(Burnes); IX. Louis Philippe, les Doctrinaires et la France; Lois sur la Presse'; X. Minutes of Evidence taken in support of the Allegations of the several Petitions against the Bill intituled >An Act to provide for the Regulations of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales< . . .', 'Speech of Henry Lord Brougham in Defence of the absent Commissioners on the English Municipal Corporation Reform Bill. . .'; XI. Postscript to Article No. 3 on the Prussian Commercial League'. --- Top of spine with small inventory-sticker, corners minimally rubbed; a beautiful copy. - Also in stock from the same aristocratic library: Vol. II, containg Part 3, January-April 1836 (with excerpts of 'Tocqueville: Democracy in America', translated by Henry Reeve Esq.) and 4, [May-June 1836]. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION OF FARRINGTON'S INAUGURAL-LECTURE FOR SWANSEA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, where he taught until his retirement in 1956; STRINGBOUND SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL, from the personal library of german economist and philosopher Alfred Sohn-Rethel who was close friend with Farrington during his over thirty-years stay in Great Britain (yet without any visible sign). Spine minimally sunned, topedge with small dust-spots; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Added is a 10-page Farrington-offprint in cardboards 'SOCIAL MIND AND ANIMAL BRAIN' extracted from 'Darwinism and the Study of Society' edited by Michael Branton (1960ies), with short autograph dedication by Farrington ''Mignon* with Love from Ben''(*:i.e. Dr. Mignon B. Alexander, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.), also from Sohn-Rethel's collection. --- MANY MORE BOOKS FROM ALFRED SOHN-RETHELS PERSONAL LIBRARY incl. his heavily annotated own works - IN STOCK. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; FRONT-FLYLEAF WITH THE AUTHOR'S 5-LINE MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION to german multilingual historian Wilhelm Alff (who also wrote and published poetry) signed and dated in the year of publication. Loosely inserted is a small brown paper-sheet with the author's detailed address in Lisboa/Portugal, obviously written by himself. It may have been part of an envelope in which Borges coelho had sent the book to Wilhelm Alff (Borges mispells it 'Allf') in Bremen, Germany. - Cover slightly used; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE BOOK. --- Also in stock Borges Coelho's first poetry book - his first book at all - 'ROSEIRA VERDE'(1962), also inscribed to Alff. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL WITH DUSTJACKET AND TRANSPARENT PROTECTION; #415 of 1.200 copies on ''Vergé des Papeteries Johannot numérotés Vergé Johannot S.P.1 à S.P.1600'' (with the additional loose number-strip '415' laid-in). - FORETITLEPAGE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GRASSET by using the printed title ''a Jean Girodou[x] / cordial hommage / e[?] >COMPRENDRE ET INVENTER<, . . .''. - Spine of the green papercover with slight crease, glassine partly sunned and with tears at spine; THE INTERIOR IS IN BEST CONDITION.…

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; FORETITLE-PAGE WITH THE AUTHOR'S WHOLEPAGE AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION ''For Dick / in memoriam / . . .'' SIGNED AND DATED ''Quebec / April '84'', last blank page with price-sticker of 'York University Bookstores'. - Left corner of frontcover slightly rubbed; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE BOOK. --- Other inscribed books from the estate of Dick Higgins in stock. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; #28 OF 110 COPIES. TITLEPAGE TOP-RIGHT WITH THE AUTHOR'S NAME- AND ADRESS-STAMP and his large autograph dedication ''For Dick . . .[3 letters, difficult to read] POEMA'', last page with his '3Vitre'-logo, typescript copyright entry and his autograph-number '110/28' and -signature. - Spine slightly sunned, minimal vertical fold; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Other inscribed books from the estate of Dick Higgins in stock. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, LARGER-SIZE SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL (Publisher's photogr. illustrated softcover with flaps; oblong-4to.(ca. 21 x 25 cm); INSCRIBED ''To Hiltrud [Oberwelland] / with love'' and signed by 'Ruth'(his wife?) and 'Azaria', each in her/his own hand. - 'Invisible' inscription at frontcover (by writing with some pressure on a sheet of paper which has been laying on the book) referring to the billionaire's sweets-company (''Storck . . .''), foreedge of frontpanel also with few very small dents; else in best condition.…

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL OF THE RARE BOOK; DINA FRANK'S COPY who married the author in 1948; INSCRIBED TO HER BY BERNER in remembrance of his journey through Germany where he met her for the first time ''Till Dina / . . . en rapport fran en resa i Riket 1937 (12 febr. . . . 27 mars.) / . . . d. 9/2-43'' AND WITH DINA'S SHORT HOLOGRAPH COMMENT that ''Einband und Illustration S. 79 [sind] ebenfalls von Rud. Berner'' and that Frank Tireur is a ''Pseudonym for Rudolf Berner''; minimal marks or translational comments in the text apparently by D. B. as well. - In 1937 the swedish anarchist Rudolf Berner (AKA Frank Tireur) who had already been active in underground work in Spain and in Nazi Germany managed to enter Germany again for a secret mission because border guards had not noticed the entry stamp of Republican Spain in his passport. He first went to Wuppertal and Duesseldorf where he met german marxist Dina Frank (then married to Otto Meyer of kindred spirit) for the first time. Frank's and Meyer's house was a meeting-point for antifascist activists. Including short trips back to Sweden and to Poland Berner spent some six weeks in Germany to intensify contacts with german anarchists and socalists before he travelled onwards to Spain. He published his report on german underground activities in Stockholm in 1940; it counts as keywork on the anarchosyndicalist activities in Nazi-Germany. Frank and Meyer went into norwegian exile soon afterwards and to Sweden when Germany occupied Norway. She later divorced from Meyer came close with Berner and they married in 1948. . . --- Frontcover minimally used; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. - Also in stock 'OTTO FRIDÉN (= Otto Friedlaender, 1897-1954): MAKT OCH MAGI. - EN SOCIALPSYKOLOGISK UNDERSÖKNING.' Stockholm, 1942; inscribed to Dina Frank. . . …

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL OF THE RARE BOOK; DINA FRANK'S COPY, INSCRIBED TO HER BY FRIEDLAENDER ''seiner lieben / Kameradin / Dina Meyer / in Freundschaft / gewidmet / . . .'', signed and dated in the year of publication. - German marxist Dina Frank (then married to Otto Meyer of kindred spirit) who's house in Ludwigshafen was a meeting-point for german antifascist activists went into norwegian exile in 1938 and on to Sweden when the Germans occupied Norway. She later divorced from Meyer and came close with Rudolf Berner whom she met during his secret german travel in 1937 for the first time. She git divorced rom Meyer later and married Berner in 1948. --- Parts of coverframe minimally sunned; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. - Also in stock 'FRANK TIREUR (= Rudolf Berner, 1907-1977): DEN OSYNLIGA FRONTEN. - FRAN DET ILLEGALA ARBETETS TYSKLAND.' Stockholm, 1940; inscribed to Dina Frank . . .…

°°° APPARENTLY UNIQUE COPY IN THE TITLED WRAPPER (ca. 22 x 16 cm, with the artist's adress); INSCRIBED ''À LA TRÈS SYMPATHIQUE ET SENTIMENTALE POÈTE SOPHIA DUPRAY'', fully signed, dated ''Arpajon 15-9-1956'' on the first blank page. - Cover split in front- and rearpanel, creased and slightly sunned; CONTENT IN BEST CONDITION. --- ''Edmond Hoyois reste un artiste mystérieux et il n'est pas impossible que son nom soit en fait un pseudonyme. Il est surtout connu pour avoir exposer à plusieurs reprises au Salon des Humoriste, une manifestation créée en 1907 par Félix Juven, directeur du journal Le Rire. Ce Salon regroupe alors les peintres attachés à la vie montmartroise qui choisissent d'exprimer leur art par l'humour. Forain, Willette, Faivre, Poulbot et bien d'autres y présentent leurs uvres comme Hoyois. Ce Salon s'impose très vite comme l'une des manifestations artistiques les plus suivies de la Belle Époque. Le Salon des Humoristes perdura jusqu'au début des années 1930, année où Hoyois expose aussi ses travaux au Salon de l'École française à Paris.''(from the website of 'Galerie Terrades, 8 rue d'Alger, 75001 Paris). …

°°° [POST-BOOKFAIR-SALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 28, 2026; previously EUR 1.800,-] --- (Sabin #30958) I. FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINAL; THE SENATE-EDITION*. - FIRST BLANK SHEET WITH 4-LINE INSCRIPTION ''to Baron Gerolt / with the kind regards / of P. G. Washington / Feby. 16 1857''. Peter Grayson Washington (1798-1872), son of the Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington (1732-1799, American Founding Father and first President of the United States) served as 'Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City'; Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879) was the German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States' and has been the longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S. In the quarter+ century of service, Gerolt met presidents James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. As a studied mining geologist (Freiberg Mining Academy) in ''1824 he travelled to Mexico as an agent of the German-American Mining Association, where significant silver mines were suspected. Together with Carl de Berghes, also an Mining Association Agent, he published the 'Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del Estado de Mexico' in 1827 with Arnz & Comp., a special mineralogical map of central Mexico, which is considered the first geological map of Mexico printed in colour.''(german wikipedia). - DETAILED PAGINATION: . / I. 2 blank sheets, XVII (I); 537 pages, with 78 xylographic illustrations in the text; 86 singleside-printed toned or colour-lithographic plates (incl. portraits after Daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown) and 3 foldout-colourplates of japanese woodblock-prints (89 plates in total) and 3 geographical maps (1 foldout) bound within; 2 blank sheets. / II. (House Edition, 1857). (8) 414, (1) 14 pages ('Treaty of Ka-na-ga-wa'[Kanagawa], the first document ever negotiated by the Empire of Japan with any western nation according to International Law), (1) XI (1) p.; some xylographic text-illustrations, 4 (3 coloured) lithographic plates 'Agriculture of China', 22 (of 23, 17 [hand-]coloured) plates of Natural History (Yack, Japanese Fox), Ornithology (Japanese Birds, 5 of 6), Ichthyology (Japanese Fishes, 10), Conchyology (Japanese Shells, 5); 3 (2 folded) maps in the text, 16 plates with meteorological diagrams; 15 of 17 very large multiple folded maps at the end. / III. XLIII, 705 pages with 365 (of 366) astronomic xylographic plates (lacking plate 66); all plates in I and II on singleside printed cardboards. --- *) 'Senate executive Documents #34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session', published parrallel to Nicholson's 'House-Editon': Corners of the leather-binding partly somewhat rubbed, panels slightly rubbed and slightly scratched; some textpages opposite of lithographic plates with slight offsetting (shadow) last sheets with slim humidity-stain at top sharp-corner, last 10 sheets (incl. rear endpaper) with small hole in the blank bottom margin; A MAGNIFICIENT COPY WITH A 'WELL NAMED' ASSOCIATION OF THE PERIOD. --- II. Binding somewhat rubbed, lacks plate 6 of Ornithology and textpages 257-262 (beginning of Ichthyology); Acceptably used. / III. Binding rubbed, many pages with humiditystain at foreedge or top sharp-corner (growing towards the end), lacks zodiac-plate #66 (of 352). - MAIN OFFER IS THE LUXOURIUS EQUIPPED AND COMPLETE HISTORIC ASSOCIATION COPY OF VOLUME I; Vols. II and III have been added from another set to create scientific completeness (more or less). . . [Cordier 'Japonica' #513 / Nissen ZBI #3132]. …

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; FRONT-FLYLEAF WITH THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT 4-LINE DEDICATION to german multilingual historian Wilhelm Alff; signed and dated in 1966. - Spine slightly sunned and with slim humidity-stain at lower third; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE BOOK (protected by loose transparent mylar-cover). --- Also in stock Borges Coelho's second poetry book 'PONTE SUBMERSA: POEMAS'(1969), also inscribed to Alff. . .…

Second edition. 21,5 : 13,5 cm. Title, Dedication, 188 pages, 15 hand-coloured aquatint platesdrawn and etched by Rowlandson. Full brown morocco on 5 raised bands, spine with gilt floral decoration, two title-labesl, boards with gilt filets, inside dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers (signed Root and Son) 'Humorous narrative of the experiences of an officer in the Peninsula War, illustrated by the pre-eminent cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson'. - "To the Subalterns of the British Army. Gentlemen, I shall , I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my powers of shewing how much I honour and admire them. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient Servant, The Author." (Dedication). - With Exlibris Almeric Hugh Paget 1st Baron Queenborough - Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, GBE (14 March 1861 22 September 1949) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was a founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and treasurer of the League of Nations Union. And Exlibris of C. Robert Bignold. - Ocassionally some minor stains, otherwise a fine copy of this curious work on the Napoleon wars in Spain.…

I. Folded doublesheet (=4 pages), ca. 135 entries; 4to.(ca. 28 x 21 cm). / II. 11 (1) pages of handmade paper, 88 Watercolours and 154+ Etchings and Mezzotints (few with pencil acquisition-prices); olive cardboard-cover; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 9 cm). ~~~ 2 ORIGINAL FRANK-SHORT-ONLY SALES- AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, both referring to the catalugue-numbers of 'Edward F. Strange: The Etched and Engraved Work of Frank Short', 1908; which is included in this offer (#48 of a total of 220 printed copies) as well as a smaller sheet with holograph notes about Frank-Short-auction-offers at Sotheby's 1913-1919; all from the estate and partly with his ownership inscription or short manuscript notes of Harold J. Wright of Fulham. - Partly slightly used; OVERALL A VERY GOOD - STORYTELLING - SET.…

°°° [POST-BOOKFAIR-SALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 28, 2026; previously EUR 280,-] --- ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, DEVELOPED BY CRYER IN HIS OWN DARKROOM during the early 2000s, when German Photographer Manuela Höfer ran her Photo-Gallery in 43 Museum Street London, exhibiting and selling - not only - his works; WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH TITLE ''MUDDY WATERS'', HIS (Cryer's) SIGNATURE AND DATE (1958) AT FRONT (under the image, and again on the rear), SIGNED AGAIN - with as copyright-mark - ON THE REAR and his statement ''Condition of use / No Cropping''. - Shallow finger-print at top-center, else in best condition; MANY MORE CRYER JAZZ- AND BLUES-MUSICIANS PORTRAITS (Eddie Condon, Champion Jack Dupree, Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Fuller, Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, Coleman Hawkins, Tubby Hayes, Marie Knight, Gene Krupa, George Lewis, Brownie McGhee, Jess[i]e Newman, Kid Ory, Big Jim Robinson, Ronnie Scott, Sonny Stitt, Clara Mae Ward, Muddy Waters, Joe Watkins) AS WELL AS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY OTHER ARTISTS CURATED BY HÖFER - such as Pilar Albajar, Martin Blume, Ray Spence, Boaz Tal, and many others - IN STOCK. . .…

°°° [POST-BOOKFAIR-SALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 28, 2026; previously EUR 280,-] --- ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, DEVELOPED BY CRYER IN HIS OWN DARKROOM during the early 2000s, when German Photographer Manuela Höfer ran her Photo-Gallery in 43 Museum Street London, exhibiting and selling - not only - his works; WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH TITLE ''GEO LEWIS LEFT WITH CIG[?] HOLDEN / JOE WATKINS RIGHT CLAPPING'' AND HIS SIGNATURE ON THE REAR, incl. a copyright-mark. - Unobtrusive trace of former mount in the corners of the rear, else in best condition; MANY MORE CRYER JAZZ- AND BLUES-MUSICIANS PORTRAITS (Eddie Condon, Champion Jack Dupree, Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Fuller, Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, Coleman Hawkins, Tubby Hayes, Marie Knight, Gene Krupa, George Lewis, Brownie McGhee, Jess[i]e Newman, Kid Ory, Big Jim Robinson, Ronnie Scott, Sonny Stitt, Clara Mae Ward, Muddy Waters, Joe Watkins) AS WELL AS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY OTHER ARTISTS CURATED BY HÖFER - such as Pilar Albajar, Martin Blume, Ray Spence, Boaz Tal, and many others - IN STOCK. . .…

°°° [POST-BOOKFAIR-SALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 28, 2026; previously EUR 280,-] --- ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, DEVELOPED BY CRYER IN HIS OWN DARKROOM during the early 2000s, when German Photographer Manuela Höfer ran her Photo-Gallery in 43 Museum Street London, exhibiting and selling - not only - his works; WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH TITLE ''BIG BILL BROONZY'' AT FRONT (under the image, and again on the rear), SIGNED ON THE REAR AND WITH A 'COPYRIGHT'-MARK. - Slight crease at top-center, else in best condition; MANY MORE CRYER JAZZ- AND BLUES-MUSICIANS PORTRAITS (Eddie Condon, Champion Jack Dupree, Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Fuller, Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, Coleman Hawkins, Tubby Hayes, Marie Knight, Gene Krupa, George Lewis, Brownie McGhee, Jess[i]e Newman, Kid Ory, Big Jim Robinson, Ronnie Scott, Sonny Stitt, Clara Mae Ward, Muddy Waters, Joe Watkins) AS WELL AS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY OTHER ARTISTS CURATED BY HÖFER - such as Pilar Albajar, Martin Blume, Ray Spence, Boaz Tal, and many others - IN STOCK. . .…

°°° [POST-BOOKFAIR-SALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 28, 2026; previously EUR 280,-] --- ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, DEVELOPED BY CRYER IN HIS OWN DARKROOM during the early 2000s, when German Photographer Manuela Höfer ran her Photo-Gallery in 43 Museum Street London, exhibiting and selling - not only - his works; WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH TITLE ''MARIE KNIGHT'' AND HIS SIGNATURE WITH COPYRIGHT-MARK AT THE REAR. - Unobtrusive trace of former mount in the corners of the rear, else in best condition; MANY MORE CRYER JAZZ- AND BLUES-MUSICIANS PORTRAITS (Eddie Condon, Champion Jack Dupree, Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Fuller, Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves, Coleman Hawkins, Tubby Hayes, Marie Knight, Gene Krupa, George nLewis, Brownie McGhee, Jess[i]e Newman, Kid Ory, Big Jim Robinson, Ronnie Scott, Sonny Stitt, Clara Mae Ward, Muddy Waters, Joe Watkins) AS WELL AS ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY OTHER ARTISTS CURATED BY HÖFER - such as Pilar Albajar, Martin Blume, Ray Spence, Boaz Tal, and many others - IN STOCK. . .…