5861. [Glaciologie / Glaciology] Gaurier, Ludovic / Ministère de l’Agriculture.

Service des Grandes Forces Hydrauliques. [Region des Alpes / Glacier de Gébroulaz / Observations Glaciaires dans les Pyrénées / Renseignements Historiques sur les Glaciers: Le Massif du Mont-Blanc etc. / Glacier de la Breche de Roland / Glaciers de Gavarnie etc.]

18 volumes. [Paris], Ministère de l’Agriculture, 1911-1920. 19 cm x 29 cm. 1746 pages. Nombreuses cartes dépliantes, graphiques, tableaux et graphiques / Numerous fold-out maps, charts, tables and graphs. Hardcovers and softcovers [publisher’s original] green cloth boards with gilt lettering on title label on spine. Slip-case with lettering to both boards and spine. / Reliure originale. Bon etat / Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interiors sunned but otherwise bright and clean.

5862. Ruskin, John.

Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: Of Kings’ Treasuries and Of Queens’ Gardens.

Third edition, with preface. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. 12 x 17.5cm. (23), 196 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering and gilt edges. Spine sunned, minor marks to boards and joint beginning to loosen but otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed with previous owner’s name on half-title page. Stamp on front free endpaper.

5863. De Wohl, Louis.

Set All Afire – A Novel of St. Francis Xavier. The biblical quotations are in the translation of Ronald Knox.

London, The Catholic Book Club, 1953. 13 cm x 19 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor discolouration to page margins, edges but mostly to endpapers. Ephemera loosely inserted as Catholic Book Club flyer. Last page creased slightly.

5864. Biggers, Earl Derr.

Seven Keys to Baldpate.

First UK Edition. London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1914. Octavo. 309 pages plus “A Catalogue of Books published by Mills & Boon Ltd.” with 22, [10] pages at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bookblock slightly distrorted only. Very good, very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription to half-title.

5865. Forristal, Desmond.

Seventeen Martyrs.

Dublin, The Columba Press, 1990. 14 cm x 21 cm. 93 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5866. [Commissioners of National Education in Ireland].

Seventh Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland for the Year 1840. To His Excellency Hugh Earl Fortescue, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland.

1840. 21.7cm x 13.2cm. 38 pages. Softcover / Cover missing. Pages loosened.

5867. Le Fanu, W.R.

Seventy Years of Irish Life – Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences.

Popular Edition – Third Impression. London, Edward Arnold, [1914]. 8°. VIII, 325 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition on poor paper-quality with signs of spotting and external wear. Page 75 torn. Name of preowner’s from the Conner-Family at Manch – Dunmanway on endpaper together with an entry: “John J. Sheridan – 1924 – IRA”. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House).

5868. Greer, Germaine.

Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility. [SIGNED / INSCRIBED]

New York, Harper & Row, 1984. 23.6cm x 16.3cm. 541 pages. Original hardcover in original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Germaine Greer to the translator, Bill Weaver: “For Bill, with Love – Germaine Greer”.

5869. Simmons, James.

Sex, Recitude & Loneliness.

First Edition. Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 1993. 15 x 21 cm. 47 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Lapwing Poetry Pamphlets]

5870. Helweg, Hjalmaro.

Sexagenario D. XI Februar. A.D. MCMXLVI (1946). Dedicata [Festschrift – This commemoration volume includes the following essays: Nils Antoni – Dreamy States, epileptic aura, Depersonalisation and Psychastenic Fits / Bengt J. Lindberg – On the question of psychologically conditioned features in the korsakow syndroma / Hermann Reistrup – Der Rorschach-test als Hilfsmittel bei der Diagnostitzierung von Milieureaktionen / Jens Chr. Smith – On the discharge of psychiatric patients after hospitalization for years, Herman Levison – Vasomotor Jacksonian epilepsy, Alfred Petren – Über Alkoholparanoia, etc. etc. ] Obtulerunt amici Discipuli Collegae – Colligenda curavit Georg K. Stürup.

Hafniae (Copenhagen), Munksgaard, 1946. Gr.-8°. 816 pages. Softcover. Slightly rubbed. Uncut publishers edition. Several essays in english french and german.