3341. Forristal, Desmond.

The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan.

Dublin, Veritas Publications, 1990. 21cm x 13.7cm. 329 (5) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some signs of foxing. Pastedown signed by preowner.

3342. [Cardiac catheterization / Nobel Price Lecture] – Forssmann, Dr. Werner.

Collection of important offprints, publications and correspondence (signed letters etc.) by Nobel Laureate Werner Forssmann, many of which are inscribed and signed by Forssmann to his colleague, irish cardiologist and clinical scientist, Eoin O’Brien. The collection includes: 1. A signed / inscribed version of Forssmann’s first offprint-edition of his Nobel-Lecture: “Die Rolle der Herzkatheterung und Angiocardiographie in der Entwicklung der Modernen Medizin” (pages 177 – 181, Stockholm, 1957, SIGNED and beautifully inscribed to O’Brien in July 1976) / 2. A signed, original Offprint: “The Evolution of Modern Cardiology” (11 pages, SIGNED Offprint from “Perspectives in Biology and Medicine – Vol.12, No.1, Autumn 1968) / 3. A Signed / Inscribed Offprint: “Die Sondierung des Rechten Herzens”, 1957-Reprint of the original 1929 – publication, (4 pages with portrait of Forssmann, published in “Therapeutische Berichte”, 29, 5, 1957) / 4. A Signed, original Offprint: “Euthanasie” (with minor tear), (7 pages, SIGNED, Offprint from Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung Heft 31, Seiten 1127-1133, 1975) / 5. Signed TLS (Typed Letter Signed by Forssmann to Eoin O’Brien, fellow cardiologist in Ireland). / 5. First english edition of Werner Forssmann – “Experiments on Myself – Memoirs of a Surgeon in Germany”, together with two TLS (Typed Letters Signed) by Translator Hilary Davies to Eoin O’Brien, who Peer-reviewed the book. Hilary Davies also included a press-release for the book and gave Eoin O’Brien access to Forssmann by alerting him to Forssmann’s address in Germany. Included are Eoin O’Brien’s typescripts of his correspondence with Forssmann.

Germany, 1956 – 1976. Octavo. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed items by Forssmann are of great rarity. The Nobel Lecture alone is very scarce and very rarely available signed.

3343. Forster, Leonard.

The Icy Fire – Five Studies in European Petrarchism.

Cambridge, University Press, 1969. 8°. XVI, 203 pages. Original hardcover. Former library copy. Binding stronger rubbed. Stamped and marked to all three edges. The text absolutely clean.

3344. Forster, Margaret.

The Park.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1968. 13 cm x 20.3 cm. 208 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Content is clean with light foxing to edges. Light discolouration to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper contains previous owner’s stamp.

3345. Förster, Wolfram.

Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Verkehr in Nordostbaden 1806 – 1914.

Mannheim, Inst. für Landeskunde und Regionalforschung, 1990. 8°. XVI, 349 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Südwestdeutsche Schriften ; 9.]

3346. Fortey, Richard.

The Earth – An Intimate History. With a new introduction by the author.

London, The Folio Society, 2011. 20 cm x 25.5 cm. XI, 416 pages. With over 100 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. Quarter-cloth bound with gilt decoration. Excellent condition.

3347. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis] / [Emily Albinia “Alba” Foster] / [Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire].

Amazing Vere Foster-Collection including Educational Materials and as a centerpiece the “Presentation Copy of “The Two Duchesses” with Autograph / Manuscript – Letter by Vere Foster to his niece, Emily Albinia “Alba” Foster. With a stunning, unpublished, two-page-letter, revealing several important details about the immediately favorable reviews and reception of the book [″in the Daily Telegraph”] and Vere Foster’s disdain about some criticism from one J.Donohue [which led to an alteration in the second edition of the book]. Vere Foster is also expecting a review to appear in the “Athenaeum” but reports “the Athenaeum has nothing yet”. Vere Foster apologizes to his niece for the delay in sending the book and explains that he had left 12 “parcels″£ with Blackie’s agent and gave instructions to send them but a few days later found they had been “untouched”. / The Two Duchesses – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire – Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859. [See Full list of items which are part of this collection, on our website under the topic “Libraries & Collections”].

First Edition. London / Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Pagination: Frontispiece, IX, [3], 497 pages with 18 Illustrations (including frontispiece and one Vignette of the two Duchesses opposite page 1). Hardcover / Original, publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is an astonishing find for the Vere Foster Research Community and the letter gives significant insight into the importance the publication had for him, its reception as seen by Vere Foster and it solves the riddle why an altertaion was necessary for the second edition [which Vere Foster explains in a brief note to the reader at the beginning of the second edition]. The heartfelt inscription to his niece Albinia Foster is also of great importance and to our knowledge the only presentation-copy of this book on the international market for the several decades we can look back at auction records.

3348. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis] / [Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire] / [Publisher Blackie & Son – Publishing House in Glasgow].

Publisher’s original “Private Library” – Correction-Copy of “The Two Duchesses”, for the “Second Edition”, with necessary alterations and wishes for changes marked by the corrector / publisher in pencil. Comparisons between pages allow to see the changes in effect if one compares the first and second edition. [A sensational find] / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire – Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859. First Edition. With 17 illustrations.

London / Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). XII, 497 pages with 16 full-page-illustrations and one small vignette, showing the Two Duchesses in cordial embrace. Hardcover / Original, green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and armorial supralibro to cover with the Motto of the “British chivalric Order of the Garter”: “Honi soit qui mal y pense” [″shame on anyone who thinks evil of it”]. Excellent, very clean binding. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. “Publisher’s Copy” with the publisher’s library sticker and bookplate to pastedown: “Blackie & Son Limited – Private Library – Case Kd – Shelf 5” – Exlibris of Blackie & Son below the library-sticker.

3349. Foster, David William.

The Argentine Generation of 1880. Ideology and Cultural Texts.

First edition. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1990, 23,5 x 16 cm. IX, 204 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition.

3350. Foster, Michael, and Macklin, Thomas. [translators].

The Cimabue Crucifix.

London, The Royal Academy, c 1980. 22.5 cm x 26 cm. 138 pages. With 110 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes a corresponding newspaper-clipping about the Cimabue Crucifix.

3351. Foster, Stephen.

The Songs of Stephen Collins Foster. A Collection of his Most Famous Songs.

London, W. Paxton & Co. Ltd, No Date. 22 cm x 28 cm. 40 Pages of music sheets. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3352. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis] / [Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire].

The Two Duchesses – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire – Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859. First Edition. With 17 illustrations.

London / Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). XII, 497 pages with 16 full-page-illustrations and one small vignette, showing the Two Duchesses in cordial embrace. Hardcover / Original, green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and armorial supralibro to cover with the Motto of the “British chivalric Order of the Garter”: “Honi soit qui mal y pense” [″shame on anyone who thinks evil of it”]. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. “Presentation Copy of “The Two Duchesses” with Autograph / Manuscript – Letter by Vere Foster to his niece, Emily Albinia “Alba” Foster. With a stunning, unpublished, two-page manuscript letter, revealing several important details about the immediately favorable reviews and reception of the book “Two Duchesses” [″in the Daily Telegraph”] and Vere Foster’s disdain about some criticism from one J.Donohue [which led to an alteration in the second edition of the book]. Vere Foster is also expecting a review to appear in the “Athenaeum” but reports: “the Athenaeum has nothing yet”. Vere Foster apologizes to his niece for the delay in sending the book and explains that he had left 12 “parcels” with Blackie’s agent and gave instructions to send them, but a few days later found they had been “untouched”. One of the most important finds of Vere Foster – Material in recent years with no sign of similar material on offer in the past years on the international market.

3353. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vere Foster’s Copy Books: Lettering Plain and Ornamental.

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c. 1870). Oblong – Octavo (21 cm x 17 cm). 24 pages with typographical Alphabets in Italic, Roman, Egyptian, Engrossing, Old English, German [Fraktur], Old English Ornamented, German Ornamented, Italic Ornamented, Roman Ornamented, Gothic Initials, Church Text, French, Celtic [also Gaelic, “Gaeilge”], Children’s Alphabet, etc. Softcover. Some fraying to wrapper. A little dusty but overall very good.

3354. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vere Foster’s Landscape Painting for Beginners. Two Volumes (complete set): [Volume I: First Stage – Teaching the Use of One Colour – Ten Facsimiles of Original Studies in Sepia by J.Callow and Numerous Illustrations in Pencil with Full Instructions in Easy Language. / Second Stage – Teaching the Use of Seven Colours – Twenty Facsimiles of Original Drawings by J.Callow and Many Illustrations in Pencil. With Full Instructions in Easy Language].

London / Glasgow and Bombay, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c. 1890). Octavo (19 cm x 24 cm). Volume I: 40 pages with tipped in plates. / Volume II: 76 pages with tipped-in plates plus 4 pages of a Bookseller-Catalogue by Blackie & Son, to the rear of the Volume, listing all of Vere Foster’s Water-Colour Books, Vere Foster’s Drawing-Books etc. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with colourful illustrations to the front covers. Unusuall excellent condition (see images).

3355. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vintage 19th Century Vere Foster Pen Nib-Box – “The Vere Foster Finest Quality Steel Pens – The Best Pen for Schools – Medium Points”.

England, The Educational Co., Ltd. no year (c. 1880). 6 cm x 4 cm x 2,4 cm. Softcover. Overall very good with a minor dent to top.

3356. Foster, R.F.

Words Alone – Yeats and His Inheritances.

Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XIX, 236 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

3357. Fountain, Robert / Coward, Malcolm (illustrator) / Whitcombe, Susie (illustrator).

The Art of the Traditional Circus: A History of the Circus and its Artists.

Askham, Palette Press, 2011. 27.5 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition. Signed by the author Robert Fountain on the titlepage.

3358. Fountain, Robert.

Travelling Ireland: A Thousand Miles with Horse & Carriage. Original Illustrations by Malcolm Coward.

Askham, Palette Press, 2008. 27.5 cm x 21.4 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 152 pages. Fully illustrated in colour with oil sketches, cartoons and photographs by various contributors. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. With marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor wear to slipcase. Otherwise excellent condition. This is a limited edition of 20 leatherbound copies of which this is number 5. Signed by author and contributors. Includes an original photograph. Includes loose ephemera: “An Invitation to the Launch of ‘Travelling Ireland’ at Bantry House” and a newspaper article entitled “A quirky and entertaining view of Ireland: Robert Fountain explains the background to his new book ‘Travelling Ireland- 1000 miles with Horse & Carriage’ and gives us a flavour of what he encountered on his journey.”

3359. Illustration of 19th century street cries in – Fournel, Victor [Maurice Nalet].

Les Cris de Paris, Types et Physionomies D’Autrefois [Painted Binding]. Ouvrage accompagné de 72 gravures.

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1888. Octavo. 221, [2] pages [illustrations supplémentaires incluses] / Inter-leaved with some uncalled for, additional illustrations on street-cries and information (interleaved newspaper clipping from 19th century france (″Un Flaneur”/″La derniere ravaudeuse”). Brochure originaux imprimés dans une reliure privée du 19e siècle à couverture rigide / Reliure peinte avec illustration de “marchand de poisson”. / Original printed wrappers in private 19th-century Hardcover / Quarter pigskin-binding over marbled paper-covered boards with spine titled in ink and ink-illustration of “marchand de poisson” to lower spine. De la bibliothèque de l’architecte français Maurice Nalet / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Exlibris / Bookplate of french architect Maurice Nalet to pastedown.

3360. Fowler, Frank.

Southern Lights and Shadows. With an Introduction by R.G.Geering.

Facsimile Edition. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1975. 12 x 19 cm. 132 pages with an Introduction by R. G. Geering. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.