7491. [Calder, Alexander] La Fontaine, Jean.

Selected Fables – Translated by Eunice Clark. Illustrated by Alexander Calder.

First Edition. New York, The Quadrangle Press, 1948. Quarto (23.5 cm wide x 30.5 cm high). 88 pages with line-drawings by Calder throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Faded dampstain to edge, else a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7492. [Holton, Gerald] / Wheeler, John Archibald.

Elementary Particle Physics – Original Offprint from the library of John Archibald Wheeler and subsequently from the library of Gerald Holton, with a postcard attached which Holton sent/addressed to Wheeler, requesting this offprint and which Wheeler subsequently sent to Holton.

[Princeton], Reprinted from “American Scientist”, 1947. Octavo. 20 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Manuscript entry of titles Holton requested from Wheeler on the postcards / in ink. Postcard stamped with “Jefferson Physical Laboratory – Harvard University”

7493. Lonicerus, Johann Daniel [Marburg / Basel].

Decades sex positionum medicarum de Angina Exquisita, Deo Dante, Nobilissimo Gratio-sissimoq Medica Facultatis legio permittente, Pro Laurea consequenda Medica in alma Rauracorum Academia [University of Basel], Publicae censurae subiiciet Ioh. Daniel Lonicerus Catto-Marpurgensis, Ad diem [2.] Julii, Anno MDCXXVIII. [Sixty Theses on Angina Exquisita].

Basileae / [Basel], Johan Jacob Genathi [Johann Jacob Genathius], 1628. Octavo (14 cm x 18 cm). [12] unnumbered Leaves (60 Theses / complete including title). Bound with an unidentified, additional Medical pamphlet on pharmaceutical questions regarding intestinal problems, listing CXLVI Theses on 5 unnumbered Leaves (Titlepage and A, A1 of this additional pamphlet are missing / Available are Theses LXIII – CXLVI). Modern Hardcover with original pamphlet bound in. Paper professionally restored in several locations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely scarce, early cardiology-publication on Angina.

7494. Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich (Lyeskov, Nikolai Semyonovitch).

The Steel Flea. Translated from the Russian of Nikolai Semyonovitch Lyeskov by Isabel F. Hapgood.

Boston, Privately printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers at The Merrymount Press, 1916. 8°. VII, 94 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with the very rare, plain publishers-dustjacket. Near fine condition. Uncut and mostly unopened, very fresh copy of this rare edition on hand-made-paper. No.67 of only 300 numbered copies. Scarce in the dustjacket.

7495. [Mathews, Charles] Anonymous.

Constance : A Novel. The First Literary Attempt of a Young Lady. In Four Volumes.

Volume IV (of four) only. London, Printed at the Logographic Press, 1785. Small Octavo (10.5 cm x 17 cm). 256 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Professionally repaired and with new spine-label. Original Label / Sticker of “Hazard’s Circulating-Library , Cheap-Street in Bath”, mounted on front board. Binding slightly rubbed. Last page with lesion and minor tear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with the name of one of his children in ink on titlepage.

7496. Carbery, Mary.

The Farm by Lough Gur – The Story of Mary Fogarty (Sissy O’Brien). With an Introduction by Shane Leslie and Decorations by Elizabeth Corsellis.

New Impression of the First Edition. London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1942. Large Octavo. XIX, 282 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7497. [The Bekker – Translation of Homer’s Ilias and Odyssee] – [Homer] Bekker, Immanuel.

Carmina Homerica – Volumen Prius: Ilias / Volumen Altertum: Odyssea [Odyssey].

Bonn, Apud Adolphum Marcum, 1858. Octavo. VI, 594 pages / 480 pages. Hardcover / Original, 19th century half-vellum with marbled-paper-covered boards. Bookseller-Sticker of William McGee (College Bookseller – 18 Nassau Street – Dublin) to the pastedowns of both Volumes. Both bindings with staining and wear. The Odyssey – Volume with minor split to lower spine. Interior in excellent condition besides an occasional appearance of a fainted dampstain.

7498. James, John.

The Mother’s Help – Towards Instructing her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services appointed by the Church of England. For the More Special Occasions which mark Christian Life.

London, Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1842. Octavo (12.2 cm wide x 19.3 cm high). XI, 533, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s half cloth with new spine-label in the style of the 19th century. The binding is in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle). With a giftinscription: “Louisa S. Meade from R H M – 1866”.

7499. [Calder, Alexander] Davidson, Jean.

CALDER at the ZOO – A Gift from the Archives of American Art.

Sache / France, 1974. Quarto. 9 sheets with nine sketches of Animals (printed) and a page of explanations by Jean Davidson. Original, illustrated Softcover-Chemise. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7500. [Calder, Alexander] Fischer, Yona.

Exhibition – Catalogue – “The Jerusalem Stabile” – The Israel Museum. Edited by Yona Fischer.

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1980. Quarto. 84 unnumbered pages with illustrations throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.