3831. Hitching, Francis.

The World Atlas of Mysteries.

First Edition. London, Pan Books, 1978. 21,5 x 29 cm. 254 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

3832. [Aeschylus] Scholefield, Jacobus.

Aeschylus – recensuit Jacobus Scholefield, A.M. Coll. SS. Trin. Nuper Socius, et Graecarum Literarum Professor Regius.

Editio Secunda. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis Excudit Joannes Smith, 1830. Octavo. II,436 pages. Hardcover / original, 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of J. A. Ormerod B.N.C., with his Bookplate to the pastedown with the Motto: “Dedit Meliora Dabitque” [Ormerod died in 1864 and was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford]

3833. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – Al-Hajri, Sa’id.

Stratigraphic palynology of the Paleozoic of Saudi Arabia. Results of a joint study between Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Pal?eozo?ique (CIMP). Project co-ordinators and editors Sa’id Al-Hajri and Bernard Owens.

Manama, Bahrain, Gulf PetroLink, 2000. 231 pages with 40 plates / 62 illustrations (including maps in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. From the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor. [GeoArabia special publication ; 1].

3834. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – Al-Hajri, Sa’id / Owens, Bernard.

Stratigraphic palynology of the Paleozoic of Saudi Arabia. Results of a joint study between Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Pal?eozo?ique (CIMP). Project co-ordinators and editors Sa’id Al-Hajri and Bernard Owens.

Manama, Bahrain, Gulf PetroLink, 2000. 231 pages with 40 plates / 62 illustrations (including maps in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. From the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor. Inscribed and signed to Dave Naylor by his colleague Geoffrey Clayton (Trinity College Dublin). [GeoArabia special publication ; 1].

3835. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – Kruit, Cornelis.

Sediments of the Rhone Delta – Grain size and Microfauna. [Including: Physiographic Map / Distribution Maps of Main Sediment and Fresh- and Brackish Water

‘s-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1955. 27 cm. 141 pages with 6 folded maps/tables in rear pocket. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor, with his name and year 1961 to titlepage.

3836. Ziegler, Peter A.

Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe. [Including the second Volume with 40 Maps].

Two Volumes (complete set). The Hague, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij B.V., 1982. Folio 130 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm + 1 portfolio (40 folded leaves : color maps, charts. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3837. [Kuwait Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – [Gill, William Daniel] / Sahabi, Fereydoun.

The Subsurface Geology of the Wafra Field (Kuwait-Saudi Arabia neutral zone). [Personal copy of eminent geologist William Daniel Gill / Excellent Association – copy with inscription of Sahabi to Gill]. With special reference to the stratigraphy of the Cenomanian. Original Thesis (printed with hand-coloured sections) submitted for the Degree of Master of Science of the University of London.

London, Oil Technology Department of the Imperial College, 1966. Quarto. Pagination: 25 pages text with 23, often large (!) fold-out-maps (some hand-coloured). Hardcover / Private cloth-binding. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: This set belonged to William Daniel Gill who held it at one point in the Watts Library. It was sold to us from the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor who had this set gifted to him by William Daniel Gill. Inscribed by Fereydoun Sahabi on the endpaper: “To Professor W.D.Gill with best compliments – F. Sahabi – Jan. 1967”. One of the extremely Rare publications on the Geology of Kuwait !

3838. [Gill, Eric] Pepler, Douglas [that was Harry Douglas Cark (called ‘Hilary’) Pepler].

The Devil’s Devices or Control versus Service. With Woodcuts by Eric Gill.

First Edition. London – Hammersmith, Published at The Hampshire House Workshops, 1915. Octavo. Frontispiece, 125 pages with woodcuts throughout the publication. Hardcover / Original publisher’s illustrated Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3839. [Maynooth / Colehill – County Longford] – Handcock, Reverend William / Handcock, Robert Ball.

Two Manuscript Notebooks of Reverend William Handcock and his son, Robert Ball Handcock. The Notebook of William Handcock is titled: “Letters & Addresses on various subjects by Revd. William Handcock” and are of special interest since he had the habit of transcribing in it complete letters he sent and received from noteworthy people in Ireland during the Famine – years 1842 (February) – 1854. These letters are often meaningful appeals to newspapers, church administrators or clergymen like William Baillie Kirkpatrick (1802 – 1882), Irish Peers (e.g. William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty) etc./ The Manuscript Notebook of William’s son, Robert Ball Handscock, was started in June of 1846 (in Maynooth) and is simply a manuscript scrapbook with poetry and stories of favourite poets of the time (including an Index).

Maynooth / Radanstown (Meath) / Cole Hill (Longford) etc., 1841-1854. Octavo. 181 pages [Diary of William Handcock] / 140 pages plus 4 pages of Index [Diary of Robert Ball Handcock]. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with paper-covered boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3840. Russolo, Luigi.

The Art of Noise (futurist manifesto, 1913) – Translated by Robert Filliou. [Great Bear Pamphlet].

New York, Something Else Press, 1967. Octavo. 16 pages. With one Illustration, showing Luigi Russolo in 1913 with his mechanical orchestra. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the rarest “Great Bear Pamphlets”.