3501. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

3502. Hoyle, Fred / Hoyle, Geoffrey.

Fifth Planet.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Octavo. VIII, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3503. Hsingyuan, Tsao / Naizheng, Zhu.

Transforming Pictures – A contemporary (Re)presenting of Traditional Thoughts. [Including the essays: A Hundred Years of Oil Painting in China / Understanding and Transforming of Being / Transforming Things into Mindimage / Meaning Beyond Image / Visualizing the Poetic Statement / Transforming Oil Painting(s) / With Transcriptions from the Preparation Workshop / Remarks on Translation].

Bilingual Edition in English / Chinese. Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 2009. Quarto (25.5 cm x 29 cm). 250 pages with illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

3504. Huang, Chun-Chieh.

Konfuzianismus: Kontinuität und Entwicklung. Studien zur chinesischen Geistesgeschichte.

Erste Auflage. Bielefeld, Transcript, 2006. 13,5 x 22,5 cm. 254 Seiten. Softcover/ Kartoniert. Neuwertig. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes / Aus der Bibliothek des Philosophen Graham Parkes.

3505. Huang, Chun-Chieh.

Taiwan in Transformation. 1895-2005. The Challenge of a New Democracy to an Old Civilization.

New Jersey, Transaction Publishers. 2006. 15 x 22,5 cm. 276 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3506. Hubbard, Clifford L.B.

Dogs in Britain: A Description of All Native Breeds and Most Foreign Breeds in Britain.

First edition. London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1948. 16 x 23.5cm. (10), 471 pages, 7 colour plates, with black and white photographs throughout. Original hardcover with gilt lettering and badge. Slight signs of external wear, including water stain to rear board, mild foxing, otherwise in very good condition.

3507. Hubbard, Elbert.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers – Aristotle. Written by Elbert Hubbard and done into a book by The Roycrofters, at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, MCMIV.

New York, The Roycrofters, 1904. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 22 pages. A variety of advertisements for Roycroft products and services at the beginning and end of publication. Original Softcover. Hand stiched with silk. Deckled edges. Unusually excellent condition of this fragile publication / Only minor signs of external wear. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers (Vol. XIV. March, 1904. No.3)].

3508. [Huber, Daniel] Tournefort, J. Pitton de.

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris, avec leur usages dans la Médecine. [Avec “Table des noms Latins des Plantes”].

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1698. Small-Octavo (10 cm x 17 cm). [28], 543, [9] pages. Hardcover / Original, early 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of swiss mathematician and astronomer Daniel Huber with at least two very minor manuscript annotations/corrections to the text. Subsequently this book was owned by the “Naturwissenschaftliche Museum in Basel”. Tournefort was notably the first to coin the term “Herbarium”.

3509. Huber, Martin.

Die Uhren von A.Lange & Söhne Glashütte / Sachsen [The Watches by A.Lange & Söhne Glashütte / Glashuette / Sachsen].

4.erweiterte Auflage / 4th, extened edition. Muenchen / Munich, Callwey, 1982. 4°. 115 pages with photographic illustrations of historical watches plus reproductions of original pricelists in the rear. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very condition with only minor signs of external wear. / German edition in excellent, close to new edition.

3510. Huddleston, Sisley.

Europe in Zigzags: Social, Artistic, Literary and Political Affairs on the Continent.

London, Harrap, 1929. Octavo. VIII, 354 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.