6551. [Lloyd, Howard & Lloyd, Mariabella Lloyd [daughter of John Eliot Howard].

Signed / Inscribed Bible and two Manuscript Letters (one with Letterhead of Grafton Manor, Bromsgrove), as well as a Photograph of Howard Lloyd & Mariabella Lloyd. The letters both to either their friend or servant Lily Crowther (with wedding-pictures of Lily Crowther and her husband included). One of the Letters is a thank-you-note signed by Howard Lloyd and Mariabella Lloyd, clearly directed at Lily Crowther and thanking her for her sympathy on their daughter’s passing. The other letter, on letterhead of Grafton Manor, is a manuscript letter, signed by Mariabella Lloyd in which she wishes Lily strength and blessing in her christian life.

London / Bromsgrove / Grafton Manor, 1907. Octavo. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s flexible leather-bound bible with two letters and several photographs loosely inserted. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6552. [Colles, Henry Cope] / [″GRJ” Georgius VI Rex (King George VI)].

Original Certificate with beautiful Letterhead of Buckingham Palace (″GRJ”) for a Medal awarded by King George VI to english music critic Henry Cope Colles “to be worn in commemoration of Their Majesties’ Coronation 12th May, 1937”.

[London], Buckingham Palace, 1937. Quarto (19.6 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). 1 page. Very good condition with minor signs of wear.

6553. Bewick, Pauline.

Ireland, An Artist’s Year [Signed / Inscribed]

London, Methuen, 1990. 25.3cm x 19.5cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover With Original Dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6554. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – [Naylor, David] / Moore-Lewy, Georg.

Zur Geochemie des Urans in metamorphen und anatektischen Gesteinen.

Berlin, 1967. Octavo. 197 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / Signed by Georg Moore-Lewy to Professor David Naylor in 1978 / Extremely rare publication (original printed thesis).

6555. Ungerer, Tomi.

Tomi Ungerer’s Tierleben [SIGNED / Inscribed]. Das Vorwort wurde von Ursula Vogel ins Deutsche uebertragen.

Zurich, Diogenes, 1990. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 32.2 cm high). 142 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6556. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] Rickert, Heinrich / Koch, Franz / Pfaff, Peter / Mommsen, Katharina / Gronicka, André von etc..

Sammlung mit Sekundärliteratur zu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Collection of german and english publication of Literary Criticism on german writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Weimar und andere Orte, Hermann Böhlau / Braemer / Acta humaniora und andere Verlage, 1933 – c.1965. 8°. c.2500 Seiten. Hardcover und flexible Einbände. All copies former Library-copies with the usual stamps and markings of library-copies / Alle Bücher sind ausgesonderte Bibliotheksexemplare mit den üblichen Merkmalen (Stempel, Rückenschildchen, teilweise unschönen Markierungen am Schnitt). Ausser diesen Merkmalen sind alle Bände in guten bis sehr guten Zuständen.

6557. [Buckingham Palace] Wardrop, Colonel F.M. [C.B. abd Military Attache to the British Embassy in Vienna (1900-1909) as well as Aide de Camp during the Egyptian War].

Original Luncheon-Invitation-Ticket-List, published in Book-Form with original Ivory-Head-Pencil by Johann Faber (Bavaria), attached on the occasion of King Edward VII’s Coronation Dinner at : “Hotel Belgravia / Buckingham Palace” – Original Ticket-Book: “List of Guests for Luncheon and Dinner – 1902 for King Edward VII’s Guests Colonel F.M.Wardrop, C.B., Colonel Commandant Johann von Belnay, Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig Koch and Captain Adalbert Guilleaume”.

[London], Buckingham Palace / Hotel Belgravia, 1902. Oblong Octavo (14.6 cm wide x 11.8 cm high). 40 pages with partial perforation for detaching of Luncheon- and Dinner-Tickets. Hardcover / Original Royal Blue Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on cover and pencil-satchet attached to the binding. Some minor staining to the binding only. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With the pencil included and the original elastic ribbon which allows the booklet to be closed. Wonderful example of the wealth of the Coronation-Event at the end of the Victorian and the beginning of the Edwardian Age (printed ticket-books for 4 attendees seem very luxurious indeed). Five tickets were used for Dinner at the Belgravia and each remaining stub was signed / monogrammed by Colonel F.M.Wardrop.

6558. Nove, Alec [Alexander] [Born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky].

Collection of First Editions (including one signed Pamphlet) by Alexander [Alec] Nove, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet Economic History. The rare Pamphlets and Publications by Alec Nove came to us together with a small archive of Communist and Soviet Economic and Educational Material (″How Communists Educate Children”) and used to belong to a member and local educator of the British Branch of the Communist Party. See full list of the Communist Material below and find a list of the Alec Nove-Material here: 1. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Village in Press and Literature” [Rare original offprint from “St.Anthony Papers on Soviet Afairs” (Estratto dalla Rivista “Occidente” – Anno XII – 1 – 1956)] / 2. Alec Nove – “Communist Economic Strategy: Soviet Growth and Capabilities” [SIGNED by Alec Nove] (1959) / 3. Alec Nove – “The Politics Of Economic Rationality – Observations on the Soviet Economy” [1958] / 4. Alec Nove – “Collectivization of Agriculture in Russia and China” (Original, rare “Preprint” in 1961) / 5. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Economy” [Heavily annotated] (1961) //.

c. 1956-1970. Octavo. Hardcover / Pamphlets and Softover publications. Most of the publications in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some publications with stronger signs of wear or annotations or markings. A very interesting collection on Soviet Economy, Planing and Educational Material on Communist Ideology.

6559. [MS Estonia].

Original Advertising Pamphlet for the Motor Ship “Estonia” Paqueboat [Sister-Ship to the M.S.LITVA] / [Not to be mixed-up with the Estonia Car Ferry !!!]

Bilingual Prospect in English – French. Wismar, Mathias-Thesen-Werft [Morflot], no year [c.1960]. Quarto (20.9 cm wide x 22.9 cm High). 12 pages in colour. Original Softcover (Stapled). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare Prospect advertising the Voyages of the “Estonia” and its many travels to Asian and African Countries.

6560. [Foster, Vere / Sir Augustus Foster] Beauvoisins, Joseph Eugène.

Notice sur la cour du Grand Seigneur, son Sérail, son Harem, la Famille de Sang Impérial, sa Maison militaire, et ses Ministres [Personal copy of irish educationalist and philanthropist, Vere Foster, a gift from his father, Sir Augustus Foster, possibly only inscribed in a secretarial hand, on the titlepage].

Seconde édition. Paris, Chez Gabriel Warée, Libraire, quai Voltaire, 1807. Octavo (13 cm x 19,5 cm). 110 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with original spine-label and ornament to spine. Binding rubbed and bumped. Old stamp “de la Calmette” on titlepage. The inscription reads: “Vere Henry Foster from Sir A.F. – London, 1845”.