5231. Theroux, Paul.

Picture Palace.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 359 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

5232. Harrison, Molly / Wells, A. A. M.

Picture Source Book for Social History. Early Nineteenth Century.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1957. 22.1cm x 14cm. 151 pages. With several black and white illustrations. Original, illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

5233. Bryant, William Cullen [Editor] / [Provenance: George Crichton – S.S.Germanic – 1879].

Picturesque America ; Or, The Land We Live In – A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of our Country. With Illustrations on Steel [49] and Wood, by eminent American Artists.

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). New York, D.Appleton and Company, no year [c.1872 – 1874]. Royal Quarto. Volume I: VIII, IV, 568 pages with Illustrations throughout (see full list below) / Volume II: VI, 576 pages with Illustrations throughout (see full list below). Original Publisher’s decorative half leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spines. Bindings firm but in poor condition. Interior absolutely excellent with some minor staining to endpapers only. Inscription in both Volumes state that these Volumes belonge to George Crichton, S.S.Germanic, 1879, where they obviously were given to him as a gift “From John Walsh, Philadelphia, American Minister at St.James’s – London”. Stunning publication with 49 very valuable Steel-Engravings in beautiful condition.

5234. Argentina – Vidal. E.E.

Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty=four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs.

No.1987 of a limited edition. London, R.Ackermann, 1943. Quarto. XXVIII, 115 pages with 24 plates in colour (several of the folding out). Hardcover / De Luxe Edition of this Reprint in quarter leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Personalized gift-copy, signed by former co-workers of the recipient.

5235. [Seymour, William Deane, Cobh] Wilson, Colonel Sir Charles W.

Picturesque Palestine – Sinai and Egypt [Volume III and IV of the First Edition in Full Red Morocco, from the library of Captain William Deane Seymour of Cobh [Queenstown, Ireland] with his bookplate to endpaper – these possibly working copies for his later work “A Tour in Syria and Palestine”].

First Edition. London, J.S.Virtue and Co., [1870]. Folio. Volume III: VI, Map of Palestine, 240 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings / Volume IV: VI, Map of Egypt and Sinai, 236 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings. Very decorative full red Morocco with gilt lettering and ornament, bound by Francis Guy, Cork. Bindings rubbed with some minor wormhole-damage to Volume IV. PAstedowns and endpapers a little stained and dusty but interior absolutely excellent besides some foxing to tissue-guards.

5236. Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson.

Pieces of Mind.

London, Faber and Faber ltd, 1942. 12 x 19 cm. 160 pages. Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5237. [De Chardin, Pierre Teilhard] Cowell, John.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Lexicon.

John Cowell [The Author], 1994. 20.5 x 30cm. 113 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Excellent condition.

5238. Langland, William.

Piers Plowman. Prologue and Passus I.-VII. Text B. Edited by J.F. Davis.

London, University Tutorial Press, 1897. 12,5 cm x 18 cm. 183 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stamp of school on half title page.

5239. [Perugino, Pietro] Gnoli, Umberto.

Pietro Perugino. No. 254 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies printed.

Spoleto, Claudio Argentieri, Edizioni d’Arte, 1923. 24 cm x 32.2 cm. Portrait frontispiece (with tissue guard), 80 pages. 51 beautiful monochrome images on plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Discreet price stamp to back board. Spine missing. Bookblock intact. Interior is bright and clean. Inscribed by the author Umberto Gnoli on the titlepage: “A Mrs. Will. Gordon, cordialement, a l’auteur – 1928”.

5240. Govi, Sergio.

Pieve di Paullo – Mille anni di vita e di fede. – [La Pieve e la Parocchia / La fabricca della Pieve / La vita civile di Paullo].

Reggio Emilia, AGE, 1980. 4°. 156 pages (LIV Tavola). Paperback. Very good condition.