4421. Macdonald, Alasdair / [Antony Miall].

Stowe – House and School.

First Edition. London, W.S. Cowell, 1951. 23 x 29 cm. 78 pages with several photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover. Original cloth / In protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Inscribed with several signed dedications to the previous owner, Stowe – pupil Antony Miall, throughout the book. The dedications are written by several former classmates of the recipient of this monograph. The book deals with: The House at Stowe / The Family / The Gardens and Grounds / The First Lustre / Stowe in War and Peace / The Ten Years’ Grace // This book also comes with a publication by Anthony Miall (″Musical Bumps” by Anthony Miall – With Drawings by Ken Pyne).

4422. [Macdonald, Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre] / [1st Duke of TarantoMacdonald, Maréchal].

Souvenirs. Avec une Introduction par M. Camille Rousset.

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1892. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 415 Pages. Couverture originale rigide avec reliure en tissu. Bon état avec seulement des signes mineurs d’usure externe. Traces de jaunissement sur les pages. Reliure extérieure abîmée.

4423. MacDonald, J.R.L. / [Provenance: Edmund Heathcote Thruston].

Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa, 1891-1894. With Maps and Illustrations.

First Edition. London and New York, Edward Arnold, 1897. 15 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 333 pages. 12 illustrations, including frontispiece. 8 maps, including fold-out colour map at rear showing “Major MacDonald’s work in British East Africa.” Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Good- condition. Large yellow ’‘Mudie Select Library”– label on front board. Rear board bears remnant of removed label. Minor staining and rubbing to boards. Tears at gutters between pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth front and rear. Binding is shaky but bookblock still solid. Front endpaper partially loose. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Heathcote Thruston with latin inscription (Esse Quam Videri) on front pastedown. Names of two previous owners on half-title page. Occassional annotations throughout the book. Occasional foxing throughout. Rare !

4424. MacDonald, Ranald.

The Only Ankles For Midges To Bite.

First Edition. Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 1993. 15 x 21 cm. 39 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Lapwing Poetry Pamphlets]

4425. Mace, Herbert.

Some Other Bees, Butterflies and Moths. By Herbert Mace, F.E.S. Author of “A Book About the Bee”, “Adventures Among Bees”, etc.

London, Hutchinson & Co., no date, (c.1925) 13cm x 19cm. VII, 160 pages. Original Hardcover with protective Mylar covering. Some slight foxing to the page edges. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes a newspaper cutting on beekeeping.

4426. Macfall, Haldane.

The British Genius. Illustrated with nineteen [tipped-in] plates in colour.

First Edition. London and Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1911. 21cm x 29cm. XX, 312, (1) pages. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and illustrated frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very minor traces of foxing to endpapers. [A History of Painting].

4427. Macfie, Alexander Lyon (ed.).

Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: Malebranche and Chinese Philosphy (David E. Mungello); The Pre-Established Harmony Between Leibniz and Chinese Thought (Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont); The Sinophilism and Christian Wolff (1679-1754) A Reader.

First Edition. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2003. 17,5 x 24 cm. IV, 348 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. With his name on the title page.

4428. MacGowan, Kenneth.

Clonmacnois: An Illustrated History and Guide to St Ciaran’s Monastic City.

Dublin, Kamac Publications. 1991. 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 56 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

4429. Mach, Ernst.

Die Mechanik in Ihrer Entwicklung – Historisch-kritisch dargestellt. Mit einem Vorwort zum Nachdruck 1988 von Gereon Wolters.

Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgeselschaft, 1988. 12 cm x 18 cm. XXXIV, 493 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4430. Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Der Fürst und Kleinere Schriften. Übersetzung von Ernst Merian-Genast. Einführung von Friedrich Meineke.

Berlin, Reimar Hobbing, 1923. 15 cm x 23 cm. 215 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine sunned and covers partially sunned. Pages tanned. [Klassiker der Politik (Uchter Band)].