6301. Rigoni, Riccardo.

Tra Cina ed Europa. Filosofia dell’ecart ed etica della traduzione nel pensiero di Francois Jullien. Pemissa di Giangiogio Pasqualotto. Prefazione di Francois Jullien.

First Edition. Milano, Mimesis Edizioni, 2014. 14 x 21 cm. 204 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

6302. Riling, Ray.

Guns and Shooting – a selected chronological bibliography. Including works in various languages on artillery, bombs, fireworks and rockets, the composition and manufacture of explosives, firearms and ammunition of all sorts, through the ages to the present time, together with books on the use of firearms in war and in sport, for the taking of all manner of game and shooting at mark, as well as works on ballistics, the history and development of firearms, wounds caused by them, gunmaking and gunsmithing, the handloading of ammunition, etc; taken from the compiler’s library and other reliable sources, with an introduction, alphabetical list of authors and a list of pseudonyms used by writers in the allied fields of sporting and shooting.prepared for the use of the arms collector, ballistician, gunsmith, handloader, technician, student and author, as well as for all who are interested in the history and development of firearms and their use in war and peace, in the field and at target.

New York, Greenberg (A Gun Room Library Book), 1951. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 434 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear to the jacket only. The jacket with some fraying and tears but well concealed by the protective Mylar jacket. Excellent publication !

6303. Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.

Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1956. 12 x 18,5 cm. 34 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. [Insel-Bücherei]

6304. 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 rather stunning binding of the Hardcover-edition ! 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.

6305. Rilke, Rainer Maria.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Translated from the German: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge.

Fifth Impression. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1958. 10,5 cm x 18 cm. 237 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

6306. Rilke, Rainer Maria / Pickman, Hester.

Rainer Maria Rilke – An Essay by Hester Pickman [A two-volume biographical study, contained in two issues of ‘Hound & Horn’].

2 Volumes (complete set). Concord (New Hampshire), Hound & Horn, 1931. Octavo. The essay on Rilke has 85 pages and includes the reproduction of a photograph of Rilke from 1906. The two Volumes of Hound & Horn have overall 328 pages (131, 197). Contemporary Hardcover / Quarter blue crushed morocco with marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt lettering and ornament on both spines. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. An unusual but wonderful collector’s edition. Uncommon.

6307. [Rilke, Rainer Maria] McCarthy, Patricia (Editor).

A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Mayfield, Agenda and Editions, 2007. 15 cm x 21 cm. 288 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Agenda Vol. 42 No 3-4].

6308. Rilke, Rainer Maria. [C.F.MacIntyre trans.].

Duino Elegies.

Fourth Printing. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1968. Octavo. XII, 89 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with some signs of external wear.

6309. Rimer, J. Thomas.

Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture.

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1988. 8°. XI, 146 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

6310. Rimer, J. Thomas et. al.

Shisendo: Hall of the Poetry Immortals.

First edition. New York, Weatherhill, 1991. 26 cm. VIII, 214 pages. 72 pages of plates. Original softcover. Good condition with stronger signs of external wear. There is a slight dampstain at the bottom of title page to page 24.

6311. Rinehart, Mary Roberts / [The American Agatha Christie].

Original Portrait Photograph Signed by the “Amerian Agatha Christie”, Mary Roberts Rinehart.

[USA], c.1915. Quarto (19.5 cm wide xo 24.3 cm high). 1 sheet. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6312. [Ring, Christy] Horgan, Tim.

Christy Ring – Hurling’s Greatest.

Cork, Collins Press, 2007. 8°. 374 pages with many images throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition of this rare, out-of-print Hardcover-version of this book.

6313. Rinken, Alfred.

Das Grundrecht auf Mitbestimmung in der Verfassung des Freistaates Sachsen als Handlungs- und Kontrollnorm. Zur Verfassungsmäßigkeit des zweiten Gesetzes zur Änderung des sächsischen Personalvertretungsgesetzes vom 23. April 1998.

1. Auflage. Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verl.-Ges, 1999. 8°. 154 Seiten. Softcover / Broschiert. Sehr guter Zustand.

6314. Rinpoche, Kalu.

The Dharma, That Illuminates All Beings Impartially Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon.

Albany, State of New York Press, 1986. 15 cm x 23 cm. 222 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6315. Riordan, Sister Francis Ellen.

The Concept of Love in the French Catholic Literary Revival. (Literary History of a Motif). A Dissertation.

Washington, The Catholic University of America Press, 1952. 8°. X, 206 pages. Softcover / Original brochure. Library copy with library signs and red marker on the edges. Stamped verso titlepage (Discarded).

6316. Rios, Alberto.

Whispering to Fool the Wind. Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 1981.

First Edition. New York, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1982. 15 x 22 cm. 72 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6317. Ritchie, Eric Moore.

The Unfinished War. The Drama of the Anglo-German Conflict in Africa in Relation to the Future of the British Empire.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1940. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 341 pages. 3 illustrations. 8 maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing on edges. Interior bright and clean. Armorial bookplate (‘Nil Sine Deo’) of F. Hamilton Lacey on front pastedown. Private inscription from previous owner on front endpaper.

6318. Ritchie, Gail.

Coyote Leaping.

First Edition. Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005. Octavo. VIII, 53 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6319. Ritter, Carl.

Der tellurische Zusammenhang der Natur und Geschichte in den Productionen der drei Naturreiche, oder: Über eine geographische Productenkunde.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 21 Seiten (Seiten 205 – 225 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].

6320. Ritter, Gerhard.

Verzeichnis der Schriften von Gerhard Ritter. Zusammengestellt von Klaus Schwabe.

München, Oldenbourg, 1958. 8°. 19 Seiten. Softcover / Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

6321. Rivière [Riverius], Lazare – Brunand, Claudine. (1630-1674)

Original 17th-century portrait of french pioneer pharmacologist, anatomist and surgeon Rivière [Riverius] / [Portrait originale du XVIIe siècle de Lazare Rivière [Riverius] – pionnier français pharmacologue, anatomiste et chirurgien] – Oval Portrait, titled: “Lazarus Riverius Regis consiliarius et medicus et in Monspeliensi uniuersitate medicinae professor an. 1653 aet. 63. Riverium iures, pictum si videris, idem / Hippocrates, librum si mediteris, erit”.

Original copper / line engraving / [Gravure originale]. [France], [c. 1660]. Size of the vintage engraving: c. 22 cm x 32 cm. Size of the framed engraving: 32,5 cm x 42 cm. Very rare, original 17th – century engraving. Excellent condition (mounted). Frame with minor signs of wear only. Price includes international shipping, framed and insured, per courier (3-5 working days guaranteed delivery).

6322. Riviere, Jacques.

De la foi. De la sincérité envers soi-meme.

Deuxième édition. Paris, Éditions de la Chronique des Lettres Francaises, 1927. 19 x 14 cm. 100 pages. Broché. État bien conservé pour cet exemplaire d’origine sur beau papier jauni sans rousseurs. Couverture défraichie. Intérieur propre.

6323. Rizzo, Francesco Paolo.

Di Abitato in Abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Ragusa-Catania, 3-5 Aprile 2003).

Edizione Italiano. Risa/Roma, Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Gr.-8°. 260 pages with Illustrations. Softcover / Brochure. Very good condition. [SEIA – VIII-IX – 2003-2004].

6324. Roa Bastos, Augusto.

I the Supreme. Translated by Helen Lane.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. 24cm x 16.5cm. 433 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6325. Roach, Peter.

English Phonetics and Phonology. A Practical Course.

Second edition Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. 23 cm. X, 262 pages. Illustrations in black and white. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6326. Robbe-Grillet, Alain.

Ghosts In The Mirror. Translated from the French by Jo Levy.

Uncorrected Proof. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 13.5 x 21cm. (11), 174 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

6327. Robbe-Grillet, Alain / Underwood, J.A. (translator).

Topology of a Phantom City. Translated from the French by J.A. Underwood.

First Uk Edition. London, John Calder, 1978. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Private inscription on the endpaper. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear to the jacket.

6328. Robbins, Jhan/ Fisher, David.

Meditation. Glück in eigener Regie. Übersetzt von Ralf Friese.

Erste Auflage. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1973. 14,5 x 21,5 cm. 132 Seiten. Softcover/ Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

6329. Roberg, Francesco.

Gefälschte memoria. Diplomatisch-historische Studien zum ältesten “Necrolog” des Klosters St. Maximin vor Trier.

Hannover, Hahn, 2008. 8°. XLIV, 228 Seiten. Hardcover. Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand. [Monumenta Germaniae historica : Studien und Texte ; Bd. 43].

6330. Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners.

New Life in Old Towns. Report on two pilot studies on urban renewal in Nelson and Rawtenstall municipal boroughs.

London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1971. 21 cm x 29 cm. 212 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing to outer spine.

6331. Robert, Marthe.

En Haine du Roman – Étude sur Flaubert.

France, Balland, 1982. 8°. 152 Pages. Broché. / Softcover. En bon état. Soulignements en crayon et stylo sur les premieres douzaines de pages. Quelques traces d’usage. / Good. Markings and underlining of sentences on the first dozen or so pages. Slight foxing on inside of front and back cover. Some signs of shelfwear.

6332. Roberts, D. W. (David William).

An Outline of the Economic History of England to 1952.

Third Impression of the Third Edition. London, Longmans, 1954. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 308 pages with numerous illustrations. Original hardcover. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Pages 299/300 with a tear. Rare Book ! / From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

6333. Roberts, David. (1796 – 1864)

Site of Cana [Lebanon] of Galilee, April 21st, 1839 [″Cana, Vue Generale” – “Cana – General View”].

Original, mid-19th century, vintage Lithograph after the original painting in the Victoria & Albert Museum. [The original Lithograph is shown in the wonderful David Roberts-publication on page 23 and 24 in full colour. The History of the image is explained in full on page 22. The original monograph on David Roberts and his work, accompanies the Lithograph as a gift to any future buyer, showing on 120 colour plates 123 colour-facsimile-illustrations and reproductions from his Journal from his visits to the Holy Land]. London, Cassell etc., c. 1850. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with Lithograph: 62 cm x 45.5 cm. Size of actual Lithograph: c. 34 cm x 50 cm. Excellent condition !

6334. Roberts, J.A.G.

A History of China. Prehistory to c. 1800.

First Edition. Stroud, Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996. 18 x 25,4 cm XVIII, 252. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on front endpaper. [A History of China – Volume I].

6335. Roberts, Michael.

Imagining myself to be. Invitation to self.

Bloomington, Indiana, AuthorHouse, 2006. 24 cm. 129 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author.

6336. Roberts, Ned H.

The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle. By Ned H. Roberts – Revised and Enlarged from the Privately Printed Edition. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings by the author and others.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1952. Folio. Frontispiece (Roberts with a McGirr Squirrel Rifle), (10), 308 pages. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition after applying a new and excellent binding. The image shows this book together with similar publications.

6337. [Roberts, William] [Exlibris Gulielme (sic) Roberts] Bonnechose, Émile de / L.Dussieux (cartographer).

Géographie Physique, Historique et Politique de la France avec dix-huit cartes coloriées représentant la formation successive du Royaume.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1847. Octavo (14 cm x 23 cm). V, (2), 104 pages, suivies de 18 cartes aux contours colorisés, de la France dans ses états successifs (104 pages plus 18 hand-coloured maps of France by L.Dussieux showing France through its History, with special maps showing historical military events with England etc. Original Softcover. Spine rubbed and slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner William Roberts in pencil on titlepage [being William Roberts of the irish family Westropp-Roberts].

6338. [Roberts, William R. F.] König, Gustav [Koenig, Gustav].

The Life of Martin Luther, The German Reformer – In fifty Pictures, from Designs by Gustav König to which is added “A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Reformation in Germany”. [Inscribed to “William R. F. Roberts from his affectionate Papa – Christmas 1860”].

London, Nathaniel Coke, 1853. Quarto. XII, 207 pages with numerous illustrations. Hardcover / Original 19th century , publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6339. Robertson, A. H.

Human Rights in the World. Introduction to the Study of the International Protection of Human Rights.

Third, revised and expanded edition. Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 1992. Octavo. IV, 314 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes several newspaper clippings related to cases on Human Rights (Rights of Travelling People in Ireland / Ireland’s and Britain’s Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law etc.).

6340. Robertson, Tim (Editor).

London – a new school of poets. New Poems by Wendy Cope, Jane Duran, John Mole, Don Paterson / Presiding Spirits – Adrian Mitchell on Blake etc. Photographs by Caroline Ellis / Design by Neil Jarvis.

First Edition. London, Magma Poetry, 2006. Octavo. 80 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, edges slightly dogeared. [Magma Poetry No 35 – Summer 2006.].

6341. Robin, Leo and Gensler, Lewis E.

Love Is Just Around The Corner. Arranged by George Shearing.

(Original, printed score). London, Famous Chappell Ltd., 1957. Quarto. 5 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

6342. Robins, Joseph.

Custom House people.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1993. 22cm. xiii,206 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare publication !

6343. Robinson, C.E.

Everyday Life in Ancient Greece.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Octavo. 159 pages. Illustrated. Map to the rear. Softcover. Poor condition due to cut-outs to cover, endpaper and title (see image). Otherwise this precious little book is in very firm and very good condition.

6344. Robinson, Charles H.

Hausa Grammar – With Exercises, Readings, and Vocabularies, and Specimens of Hausa Script.

Fifth Edition, Revised (Eleventh Impression). London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1941. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. VII, 218 pages. Fold-out grammar-table within rearboard-pocket. Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Scoff marks, shelfwear and fading to boards evident. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong. Preowner’s details on front endpaper (C.E.Wortley – R.A.F. Regiment – August 1942).

6345. Robinson, Charles Napier.

The British Tar in Fact and Fiction. The poetry, pathos, and humour of the sailor’s life. With introductory chapters on the place of the sea officer and seaman in naval history and historical literature by John Leyland.

Reprint of the 1909 Edition. Washington, Singing Tree Press, 1968. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. XXIII, 520 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece in colour and one hundred and thirty reproductions of old prints, engravings, and woodcuts, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A slight stain on front cover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

6346. Robinson, Lennox.

Eight Short Stories.

London, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, no year [c.1919]. Small Octavo. 114 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket carries a portrait of Lennox Robinson on the cover. The rare dustjacket with some fraying and two corners missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a private entry of the preowner to the endpaper.

6347. Robinson, Mary.

Walsingham; or The Pupil of Nature, A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author of Angelina – Hubert de Sevrac – The Widow – Vancenza, &c. &c.&c.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce !

6348. [Robinson, Sir Joseph B.] Weinthal, Leo [Editor].

Memories, Mines and Millions. Being the Life of Sir Joseph B. Robinson, Bart. Compiled and edited by Leo Weinthal.

London, Simpkin Marshall, 1929. 19 cm x 25 cm. Frontispiece, 247 pages. Five high-quality, tipped-in, vintage monochrome photographs, including frontispiece on 4 plates. Besides the vintage photographs numerous illustrations throughout. Illustrations show for example action on the Pniel Diamond Diggings in 1875, Ferreira’s Camp in Johannesburg, 1886, Pretoria in 1875 / Caricatures of Robinson in “The Moon”, “Pretoria Press” “Truth” etc. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Lower corners slightly rubbed. Illegible name of preowner on titlepage. Interior is bright and clean. Pencilled underlining to page 35.

6349. Robinson, Tim D.

The Burren – A Map of the Uplands of North-West Claire (Éire)

Arainn, T.D.Robinson, 1977. Folio Size – Folded. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare !

6350. Robinson, Wendy.

Exploring Silence. A revised version of a talk first given to the annual conference of the Servants of Christ the King in 1973.

Oxford, SLG Press, 1982. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 22 pages. Original pamphlet. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Fairacres Publication 36]