6911. Kenner, Hugh.

The Mechanic Muse.

New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 136 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Near new. Some ephemera inside cover including a leaf from publisher noting this book as an advance copy (dated November 27, 1986).

6912. Arakawa [Shusaku] and Madeleine Gins.

The Mechanism of Meaning.

Revised Edition. New York, Abbeville Press, 1988. Quarto (29 cm wide x 29 cm high). 161 pages (including six translucent pages at the rear) and the two often missing, loosely inserted cards which show a reproduction of a micrograph of zirconium from the Atomic Resolution Microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Minor staining to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6913. Warner, Rex [ed.].

The Medea of Euripides. A translation by Rex Warner.

Second printing. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. 14,5 cm x 23 cm. 64 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

6914. Barraclough, Geoffrey.

The Medieval Papacy.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 216 Pages with several illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6915. Wiggin, Maurice.

The Memoirs of a Maverick.

London, The Quality Book Club, 1968. 13 cm x 20 cm. VII, 232 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slightly worn corners and edges on dustjacket with one very small tear on back. Inscription by pre-owner.

6916. Eden, Sir Anthony.

The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden Full Circle.

London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1960. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. 619 pages, including several maps. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6917. Hole, Dean Samuel Reynolds / [Mudie, Charles Edward / Bookbinder London]

The Memories of Dean Hole.

Fifth Edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1893. Octavo. Frontispiece, XII, 377 pages with 9 illustrations (including frontispiece). Hardcover / Original quarter red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Stunning binding with marbled paper-covered-boards and marbled edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Special Binding “Bound by Modie” / Boobindery of Modie’s in London. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marbled endpapers uniform with marbled edges and paper-covered-boards. With blind-stamped name: “Fort Robert – Ballineen – Co. Cork”.

6918. Paolozzi, Eduardo.

The Metallization Of A Dream. Reproductions. With a commentary by Lawrence Alloway.

Handnumbered: No.218 [of c. 400]. London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1963. Quarto (22 cm wide x 26.5 cm high). Frontispiece, 64 pages with illustrations (some in colour) throughout the publication. With four (4) photo-lithographs. Original, illustrated, blindstamped Hardcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

6919. [Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine / [Berkeley, George].

The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley’s Miscellaneous Tracts which also include “De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum” in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton’s absolute Space, Time and Motion. (″With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the “precursor of Mach and Einstein” – Karl Popper)].

First English Edition. London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript – annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in “A Word to the Wise”, “Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water”, “The Querist”. From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork.

6920. Maggregor, M. / Maggregor, A.G.

The Midland Valley of Scotland.

Second edition, revised. Edinburgh, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1983. 24,5 x 15,5 cm. VII, 92 pages and 28 illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear such as minor stains on the cover.