4241. Stone, Charles R.

The Fountainhead of Chinese Erotica – The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun Zhuan). With a Translation and Critical Edition.

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. Octavo. VIII, 271 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition, especially with the wonderfully protected dustjacket. Very Rare but even rarer in this condition !

4242. [Rossetti] Beerbohm, Max / [John Gilbert “Jack” Bohun Lynch].

Rossetti and his Circle [Association Copy – Inscribed / Signed by Max Beerbohm to his friend, Biographer and fellow Caricaturist, (John Gilbert)″Jack [Bohun] Lynch”].

First Edition. London, William Heinemann, 1922. Quarto. Frontispiece, IX, [1] pages with 23 tipped-in plates (including the now famous Oscar Wilde – Caricature) with lettered tissue-guards. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket very poor and fragmented but the Volume itself in excellent, firm condition. All colour-plates with tissue-guards in place and in wonderful condition. Excellent association-copy with the personal inscripton by Max Beerbohm to his friend Jack Lynch by incorporating the half-title: “Jack Lynch’s copy of [Rossetti and his Circle] from Max – 1923”.

4243. Wood, Paul.

Diseases of the Heart and Circulation.

First Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24.5 cm). Colour-Frontispiece, XXX, 589 pages. Numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with faded lettering on spine. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of external wear, like some rubbing and bumping to top and bottom spine. Name of preowner on endpaper. Otherwise the interior bright and clean. Extremely rare book !

4244. Keiser, Helen.

Arabia. Text und Fotos: Helen Keiser.

Erste Auflage. Zürich, Silvia-Verlag, 1971. 22 x 30 cm. 121 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe im originalen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

4245. King, David / David King & Sons, Ltd.

Illustrated Catalogue for the Year 1923 of David King & Sons, Ltd. – Architectural and General Ironfounders – Keppoch Iron Works, Possilpark, Glasgow – Listing: Rain Water Pipes and Connections, Gutters etc. / Soil Pipes and Connections / Drain Pipes and Connections / Covers and Frames, etc. [with an Appendix showing Ironwork – Designs from the Ornamental Section of the Company with beautiful “Cast Iron Railings” / “Fire Escape Stairs” / “Cast Iron Newels” / “Cast Iron Spiral Stairs” / “Cast Iron Lamp Pillars” / “Cast Iron Designs for Canopy (using the example of “The Grosvenor Picture House” [Cinema] / “Cast Iron Design for a Bandstand in a Park”].

Glasgow / Leeds / Aberdeen, David King & Sons Ltd., 1923. Oblong Quarto (32 cm wide x 25 cm high). The Catalogue includes Sectin II – V with an appendix of beautiful cast ironworks in Parks etc. Pagination: Section II: 72 pages (pages 7, 8 and 9 heavily stained)/ Section III: 13 pages / Section IV: 13 pages / Section V: 28 pages Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Four pages stained. Binding firm. A very rare catalogue !

4246. [Allcock & Co.] / S.Allcock & Co. Limited.

Fishing Tackle Specialists for all Markets – Wholesale Illustrated Catalogue No.32.

Redditch (England), S. Allcock & Co. Ltd., [1928]. Quarto (22 cm wide x 28.3 cm high). 123 pages with hundreds of illustrations throughout [of which six pages are in full colour showcasing beautiful flies: “Floating May Flies” / “Allcock’s celebrated Salmon Flies” / “Upright Winged Trout Flies” / “Loch and Sea Trout Flies” / “Trout Flies” / “Dry Flies – Double Winged” / Original Publisher’s Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With a sheet of “Trading Conditions” tipped into the book (endpaper). Loosely inserted into the Catalogue is some wonderful Ephemera: 1. Allcock-Advertising-Leaflet for Allcock’s “Aerialite” – Reels / 2. Allcock-Advertising-Leaflet for Allcock’s “Built-Cane Rods” with reduced prices for the year 1932 / 3. “Allcock-Advertising-Leaflet” for Allcock’s “Featherto” Minnows (colourful presentation of “Pheasant Tail-Minnows”, “Blue-Spot and Gold – Minnows”, “Char-Minnows” etc.) / 4. Additional, “Revised Price” – List for Catalogue No.32 and also reduced prices for New Goods” (16-page-price-list).

4247. Hammond Lane Ironfounders [Dublin].

Company Catalogue of “The Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd. – 111 Pearse Street – Dublin” – Listing: Cast Iron Cookers – Grates – Ranges – Heating Stoves – Low Fires – C.B.Fires – R.W. & Soil Goods – Manhole Covers – Gulleys – Gratings – Ventilators – C.I.Tanks – W.C.Cisterns & General Castings. [With two Birds-Eye-View-Photographs of the Ironworks in Dublin’s Pearse Street pasted to the inner boards of the binding / Shows also a very interesting image-sheet with photographs of the Fleet of Lorries and one Service-Van which delivered the Stoves anywhere in Ireland].

[Dublin, Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd., 1954. Large Octavo (22.5 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 71 single sheets with fantastic, photographic illustrations of Cast Iron Aga – Style – Stoves, Fireplaces etc. Hardcover with single sheets bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4248. [Kings Bromley Manor].

Collection of two very rare original Albumen Print Photoalbums wih original photographs of Kings Bromley Manor, Kings Bromley Farm, Lichfield, parts of the Lane Family, places the Lane – Family visited etc. etc.

Lichfield (Staffordshire, England), no year (ca.1890-1910). Folio / Quarto. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4249. Clement, Roland C.

The Living World of Audubon. The photographers of the Living World of Audubon include: Fred J. Alsop, A.W. Ambler, Ron Austing, Jen & Des Bartlett, D.R, Blankinship, Allan D. Cruickshank, Helen Cruickshank, Thase Daniel, Harry Engels, Kenneth W. Fink, John B. Flannery, David Mohrhardt, Robert E. Pelham, Leonard Lee Rue, Marty Stouffer, H.A. Thornhill, Joe Van Wormer. Designed by Albert Squillace.

First Edition. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 23,5 x 31 cm. 272 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [Ridge Press Books].

4250. Brown, Howard (ed.).

Nureyev. Edited and designed by Howard Brown.

London, Phaidon Press, 2008. 24,5 x 29 cm. 177 pages with 177 black-and-white illustrations (photographs). Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear only.