7971. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – Dadlez, Ryszard / Marek, Sylwester / Pokorski, Jedrzej.

Palaeogeographical Atlas of the Epicontinental Permian and Mesozoic in Poland / Atlas Paleogeograficzny Epikontynentalnego Permu i Mezozoiku w Polsce. [1 : 2 500 000].

Bilingual Edition (Polish / English) Warszawa, 1998. Oblong Folio (44.3 cm wide x 31 cm high 75 Maps in original Ring-Folder. Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7972. [Schneemann, Carolee] Eshleman, Clayton.

The Gull Wall. [Annotated Association Copy] –

Los Angeles, Sparrow Press, 1975. 22.7cm x 14.6cm. (5) 111 pages. Original illustrated softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With Carolee Schneemann’s ownership-stamp on endpaper. Inscribed by Clayton Eshleman to Carolee Schneemann. Schneemann has annotated and commented on several poems inside the publication.

7973. [Schneemann, Carolee] Fraser, Kathleen.

Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake. [Association Copy] –

Berkeley, Kelsey St. Press, 1984. 22.9cm x 17.8cm. (10) 34 (4) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Cover stained. Otherwise very good. From the library of Carolee Schneemann, with her ownership – stamp to the endpaper (New Paltz – New York) / Inscribed by the author to Carolee Schneemann: “for Carolee – twenty years later – wonder/full to have survived all this and to live, still, in the imagining moment – love – Kathleen – San Francisco – 11.15.84”.

7974. Seebeck, Thomas Johann.

Magnetische Polarisation der Metalle und Erze durch Temperatur-Differenz.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 108 Seiten (Seiten 265 – 373 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) plus zwei Tabellen und zwei Tafeln mit Abbildungen zu Magnetismus und Temperatur-Differenz im Anhang. Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

7975. Seward, William Wenman.

Topographia Hibernica; Or the Topography of Ireland, Antient and Modern, Giving a Complete View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of That Kingdom ; With Its Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Trade, Manufactures, Extent and Population. Its Counties, Baronies, Cities, Boroughs, Parliamentary Representation and Patronage ; Antient Districts and their Original Proprietors. Post, Market, and Fair Towns ; Bishopricks, Ecclesiastical Benefices, Abbies, Monasteries, Castles, Ruins, Private-Seats and remarkable Buildings. Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Mineral-Springs, Bays and Harbours with the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Places and their Distances from the Metropolis and from each other. Historical Anecdotes and remarkable Events. The whole alphabetically arranged and carefully collected. With an Appendix, containing some additional Places and Remarks and several useful Tables.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Alexander Stewart, 1795. Quarto. Frontispiece (Beautiful Handcoloured Fold-out-Map of Ireland), unpaginated with c.350 pages and Appendix. No Plates included in this Volume ! Original half-leather. Binding in poor condition. Interior a little dusty but very good. The Map in excellent condition.The Text clean.

7976. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

7977. Seymour, Capt. W.D. [William Deane Seymour from Queenstown [Cobh], Co.Cork].

Journal of A Voyage Round the World.

Cork, Printed and Published by Francis Guy, 1877. Octavo. Portrait (Original Albumen Print of Seymour’s Photograph], VII, 169 pages. Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and armorial Motto of Seymour on front board. Very good condition. Binding a bit shaky. Extremely Rare !

7978. [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.

7979. De Bourdeille, Messire Pierre.

Memoires De Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, Contenans Les Vies de Dames Galantes de fon temps.

Volume I et II en un volume. Amsterdam, Chez Jean de la Tourterelle, M.DC.LXXXIX [1689]. 8,5 cm x 14 cm. 358 pages, 408 pages. Hardcover / Original vellum. A tear to bottom of spine, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookplate to pastedown.

7980. Derrida, Jacques & Fathy, Safaa.

Tourner les mots: au bord d’un film. [Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida]

Edition limitée (No.60/70). Paris, Galilee, 2000. 8°. 169 pages with illustrations / photographs in colour. Softcover / Reliure Broché. Pages Unopened ! Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida / First edition, one of seventy examples printed on “verge ivoire,” of this work produced as a companion to the film “D’ailleurs, Derrida”. Only seventy copies were produced, and most were distributed among the film’s collaborators. This copy signed by Derrida on the half title. Fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.