1. Addison, William.

English Spas.

London, B.T. Batsford LTD, 1951. 14.2 cm x 22.2 cm. Colour Frontispiece. VIII, 152 pages. 68 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Minor foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, half-title page and edges.

2. [Arnoux, Thérèse] Jacques Prevert et Joseph Kosma.

CHANSONS – Illustrations de Thérèse Arnoux.

FIRST EDITION (No.00177 / 1500). Quarto. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3. [Baines, Thomas].

The Birds of South Africa Painted by Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) – Comprising the complete collection of ninety plates executed by Thomas Baines, together with descriptions from the text of C.J.Andersson’s ‘Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the adjacent Countries of South-West Africa’, with a biographical Essay by R.F.Kennedy. [Includes an excellent illustration of the Red-necked Falcon (Falco chiquera) – see image].

Limited Hand-Numbered Edition [No.404 of only 500]. Johannesburg, Winchester Press, 1975. Quarto (28.4 cm wide x 33.5 cm high). Frontispiece-Portrait of Thomas Baines (see image), 204 pages with 90 colourful illustrations / plates. Original Hardcover with glassine jacket in original slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A wonderful and now rare publication in excellent condition.

4. Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

5. Bawden, Edward.

Pottery Making at Poole.

[Plaistow, Newham], Printed at The Curwen Press, no year [c.1925]. Small Octavo (10 cm wide x 15.8 cm high). 12 pages (including printed wrappers). Original, printed card-wrappers (sewn binding). Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear and no tears. Interior very bright. Extremely Rare !

6. Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

7. Black, Eileen.

Through The Salerooms – Art Auctions in Belfast, 1807-1888.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2022. Quarto (21.8 cm wide x 29.4 cm high). XXI, 424 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

8. [Bonnard, Pierre] Anet, Claude.

Notes Sur L’Amour. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard and engraved by Yvonne Mailliez.

Exemplaire non numéroté sur Alfa bouffant. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1922. 26cm x 21.3cm. 74 pages. With beautiful, intimate illustrations. Hardcover / Modern half cloth with marbled-paper-covered-boards in slipcase. Bound with the original wrappers Excellent condition.

9. [Bonnard, Pierre] Chauveau, Léopold.

Les Histoires Du Petit Renaud.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Quarto (23 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 93 pages. Original Softcover Brochure with illustrations by Pierre Bonnard / Broché originale et illustree. Excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear / Avec cinquante illustrations dessinées et coloriées au pochoir, en bleu et en rouge, par Pierre Bonnard. Exemplaire 226 des 322 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches de ces cinq histoires pour enfants. Les seuls contes pour enfants jamais illustrés par Pierre Bonnard. Tres bon exemplaire !!

10. Borges, Jorge Luis / Guerrero, Margarita / Baldessari (illustraciones).

El Libro De Los Seres Imaginarios.

Buenos Aires, Editorial Kier, 1967. 20 cm x 25 cm. 160 pages including many colour illustrations. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some clear signs of wear. Browning of page-edges. Binding is fragile in places.

11. Brooke, Geoffrey.

The Glad Companion. With Drawings by Lucy Dawson.

London, Constable Publishers, 1946. 14.2 cm x 21.8 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated Colour Frontispiece. Five full page black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners and spine only very lightly rubbed. Some stains to front board. Title slightly faded on spine. Minor foxing to edges, half-title and endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner’s name in black ink on front endpaper. Also black ink inscription to front pastedown.

12. [Browne, Frank] O’Donnell, E.E.

Father Browne’s Titanic Album – A Passenger’s Photographs and Personal Memoir. Foreword by Dr. Robert D. Ballard.

Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1997. 29.2cm x 25.8cm. 120 pages. With 111 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. [Bruegel, Peter] Claessens, Bob / Rousseau, Jeanne / Chevalier, Haakon [trans.]

Our Bruegel.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1969. 26 cm x 34 cm. Portrait frontispiece, 233 pages. 97 paintings, 28 drawings and 6 plates. Some fold-out illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown buckram boards] with gilt lettering on white spine. Gilt design on front board. Pastedowns and endpapers beautifully illustrated with rustic scenes. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is in excellent condition that allows for the proper consideration of the lavishly produced and stunningly presented illustrations, many of which are tipped-in.

14. Buchan, John / Olcott, Frances Jenkins[editor].

The Magic Walking-Stick and Stories from the Arabian Nights .

London, Associated Newspapers, no year (c.1900). 15 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 314 pages. Numerous colour illustrations Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shows fading. Light tanning and occasional foxing throughout. Binding good and firm and bookblock tight and square. Unmarked interior. Name of previous owner on rear pastedown.

15. [Buckland-Wright, John / Golden Cockerel Press] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Hymn to Proserpine. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo (16.8 cm wide x 23.7 cm high). 20 pages with seven woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Burgundy cloth). Spine slightly sunned. Otherwise in absolutely excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

16. [Caldecott, Randolph].

The Great Panjandrum himself.

London, George Routledge & Sons, no date (ca. 1885). Oblong-Octavo. 24 pages with seven colour-illustrations (including cover). Original, illustrated brochure. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [R.Caldecott’s Picture Books].

17. [Caldecott, Randolph] Goldsmith, Oliver.

An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex – Mrs. Mary Blaize.

London, George Routledge & Sons, no date (ca. 1885). Oblong-Octavo. 24 pages with six colour-illustrations (including cover). Original, illustrated brochure. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [R.Caldecott’s Picture Books].

18. [Calder, Alexander].

autobiographie. Traduction de Jean Davidson.

[Edition française de “Calder – an Autobiography with Pictures]. Paris, Atelier Maeght, 1972. Quarto. 208 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

19. [Calder, Alexander].

Calder – [Texte: Jacques Prevert / Jean-Paul Sartre / Fernand Leger / Michel Butor / Henri Pichette / Jean Davidson / Gerard-Georges Lemaire //

Paris, edition Maeght, 1992. Octavo. 115 pages (with illustrations throughout). Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition.

20. [Calder, Alexander].

“Calder’s Universe” – Large Collection of more than sixty (60) Reference-Books and Artist-Books by and on artist Alexander Calder. The collection includes rare Volumes with original Lithographs, Exhibition-catalogues, Autobiographies and a collection of wonderful issues of eleven Derriere Le Mirroir, most of them with original Lithographs by Calder. The collection includes early monographs as well as later catalogues and is a perfect chance to acquire some good understanding of his works in Mobiles, Stabiles and other art.

Quarto. The collection includes books in different bindings: Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket / Original Softcover / Hardcover without dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Most books in excellent condition.

21. Calder, Alexander.

Three Young Rats And Other Rhymes – Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

One of 3000 copies of the second edition (MOMA 1946). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 31.5 cm high). XVIII, (1), 130, (4) pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The jacket slightly frayed but now protected in Mylar. Overall the volume in a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

22. [Calder, Alexander] Archives Maeght.

“calder” – the artist, the work.

First english edition. Boston, Boston Book & Art, publisher, 1971. Quarto. 136 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed and woth some tearing. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

23. [Calder, Alexander] Bellew, Peter.

CALDER.

New Jersey, Chartwell Books, 1969. Small-Quarto. 120 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in Mylar. Small stain from removed price-sticker on dustjacket. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

24. [Calder, Alexander] Bruzeau, Maurice.

Calder. Text by Maurice Brazeau / Photographs by Jacques Masson. Translated from the French by I. Mark Paris.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1979. Quarto. 171 pages / Illustrated throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

25. [Calder, Alexander] Bruzeau, Maurice / Masson, Jacques / Feld, Charles.

Calder à Saché. Texte et Poems – Maurice Bruzeau / Photographie – Jacques Masson / Mise en pages – Charles Feld.

Paris, éditions Cercle d’Art, 1975. Quarto. 200 pages avec 252 illustrations [139 en couleurs]. Original Hardcover with see-through dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

26. [Calder, Alexander] Cassou, Jean / Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York.

CALDER. With a Preface by Jean Cassou. [Musee National d’Art Moderne Paris / The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York].

Paris, juillet-octobre, 1965. Folio. 56 pages with four original Lithographs. With photographs of Calder by Andre Kertesz and others. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

27. [Calder, Alexander] Cvach, Milos.

Fishbones (Arêtes de poisson).

[Paris], Atelier des enfants et Musée national d`art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989. Octavo. 38 unumbered pages, some with stenciled features. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

28. [Calder, Alexander] Galerie Adrien Maeght.

Calder. [Ce Quarante-Huitieme Catalogue a ete a l’occasion de L’Exposition Calder a la Galerie Adrien Maeght].

Paris, Adrien Maeght, 1987. Folio. 32 pages with images of Stabiles and other installations etc. Original, illustrated Softcover. Minor signs of foxing only. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

29. [Calder, Alexander] Galerie Krugler & Cie.

Suites 11 – Alexandre Calder. [En juin 1966, “Suites No 11” – a ete acheve d’imprimer sur les presses de Dumaret & Golay a Geneve au nombre de 2500 exemplaires, a l’occasion del’exposition retrospective des oeuvres d’Alexandre Calder”].

First Edition. Geneve [Switzerland], Galerie Krugler & Cie, 1966. Folio 2(4 cm wide x 32.5 cm high). 23 pages. With two large, double-page Lithographs by Calder. Original, illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

30. [Calder, Alexander] Gibson, Michael.

Calder.

Paris, Fernand Hazan, 1988. Small Octavo. 109 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

31. [Calder, Alexander] Hulten, Pontus.

Alexander Calder – Die Grossen Skulpturen / Der Andere Calder.

[Bonn], Edition Cantz, 1993. Quarto. 167 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

32. [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.

33. [Calder, Alexander] Lipman, Jean.

Calder’s Universe [including the important chapter: “Who is Who in Calder’s World “]. By Jean Lipman with Ruth Wolfe, editorial director.

Second Printing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RUNNING PRESS in cooperation with Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Quarto. 351 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor foxing to halftitle and endpapers only.

34. [Calder, Alexander] Marchesseau, Daniel.

The Intimate World of Alexander Calder. [With 680 Illustrations, Including 200 in Full Colour]. Translated by Eleanor Levieux and Barbara Shuey.

[English edition of “Calder Intime”]. Paris / New York, Solange Thierry Editeur / Harry N.Abrams, 1989. Quarto. 399 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Minor staining to pastedown / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

35. [Calder, Alexander] Marter, Joan M.

Alexander Calder. With 170 Illustrations.

Cambridge / New York / Port Chester / Melbourne / Sydney, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Quarto. XVI, 302 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

36. [Calder, Alexander] Mulas, Ugo / Arnason, H.H..

CALDER – Photographs and Design by Ugo Mulas. Introduction by H.Harvard Arnason. With compliments by Alexander Calder.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1971. Quarto. 216 pages with 114 photographs. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Former library-copy (with several Withdrawn-stamps). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

37. [Calder, Alexander] Pirovano, Carlo.

Calder – a cura di Giovanni Carandente. [Retrospettiva, Torino, Palazzo a Vela, 2 luglio-25 settembre 1983].

Milano, Electra Editrice, 1983. Quarto. 250 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some staining to dustjacket only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

38. [Calder, Alexander] Prather, Marla.

Alexander Calder 1898–1976.

Yale University Press, 1998. Quarto (27.5 cm wide x 30 cm high). 366 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Mint condition / Still shrinkwrapped.

39. [Calder, Alexander] Sweeney, James Johnson.

“Calder” – Catalogue des Oeuvres exposees. [Du 2 Avril Au 31 Mai 1969] – Fondation Maeght – 06 Saint Paul] / [Avec Texte du Jean-Paul Sartre]. Le texte de J.J.Sweeney a ete traduit de l’anglais par Annick Baudoin, celui de G.Carandente de l’italien par Alain Veinstein.

Fondation Maeght, 1969. Quarto. 226 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

40. [Calder, Alexander] Wilbur, Richard.

A BESTIARY – [One of 50 copies on luxurious Rives-mould, signed by Calder and Wilbur].

New York, Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955. Folio (24 cm wide x 32.5 cm high). Original Hardcover / Half red morocco, beige buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped illustration to front board. A very fine copy in the original board slipcase with very minor signs of shelfwear to the slipcase only. Spine very sightly sunned. A fantastic book with quotes from Yeats and Kafka and many other writers, illustrated by Calder!

41. Carroll, Lewis / Schindehütte, Albert.

Album für Alice – Eine Huldigung an Lewis Carroll. Nachwort von Roger Willemsen.

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1993. 21.2 cm x 30 cm. 175 pages. 36 full-page partly coloured drawings. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor tear to rear cover and endpaper and very minor indentations to front cover edge. Ink stamp to lower edges. Otherwise very clean and bright. [Gestempelt am Schnitt: “Maengelexemplar”].

42. Chalmers, Alexander.

A History of the University of Oxford, including the Lives of the Founders, by Alex Chalmers, with a Series of Illustrated Engravings by J.Storey & J.Greig. / A History of the College Halls. And Public Buildings, attached to the University of Oxford. [With 31 plates / steel engravings (including frontispiece)].

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Oxford, Printed by Collingwood and Co., 1810. Octavo (14.4 cm wide x 21.7 cm high). Pagination: VolumeI: Frontispiece-Engraving of Oxford, engraved title-page, another title-page with a more explicit title, XVI, 260 pages / Volume II continues the pagination: Halftitle, Title, Pages 261 – 486 plus an Index (13 pages). plus 1 page (List of Plates). Original, very decorative, early 19th century full leather with gilt ornament to boards and masterfully rebacked spine with spine-labels. A superior copy of this often deranged and broken publication. A stunning example of british bindery-craftsmanship and with only minor signs of browning and foxing. The best example of this work we have ever seen. Firm, possible to be handled without fear of breaking, the leather smooth. A perfect gift !

43. Christo & Jean-Claude.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Sculpture and Projects 1961-96. [SIGNED by Christo and Jean-Claude].

Yorkshire, Exhibition Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, 1997. Oblong Small-Quarto (21 cm wide x 15 cm high). 36 pages with illustrations (some in beautiful colour). Softcover / Original spiral bound. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare now with the beautiful signatures of these two landmark-artists of the 20th century.

44. [Combe, William] / [Thomas Rowlandson].

The Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of the Picturesque – A Poem [plus: “Volume Second”: “The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of Consolation – A Poem”].

Volume One in Fourth Edition / Volume Two in First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Published by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 1813 – 1820. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, [2], 276, plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 31 handcoloured illustrations (including Frontispiece and titlepage) by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson / Volume II: Frontispiece, [1], 277 pages plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 22 (of 24) handcoloured illustrations by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover / Original half leather with original spine-labels and ornaments. Both Volumes with some rubbing but both in firm, original condition. Interior of Volume I with some mild foxing and fingerstaining only but all plates excellent. Interior of Volume II with a tear and loss of paper to the front free endpaper, some mild foxing, one plate and one textpage (page 11) slightly detached and with fraying). Minor wormholedamage to rear board (neglectable). Overall these two Volumes are in very good condition !

45. Cooke, Arthur O.

At the Zoo. Pictures by Winifred Austen.

London, Edinburgh and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, no year. 22 cm x 29 cm. Frontispiece, 152 pages. 12 colour illustrations including frontispiece on separate plates. Numerous illustrations within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with title and pictorial on front baord with tooled bordering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to an otherwise clean and bright interior.

46. Crane, Walter.

The Baby’s Opera – A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses / The Music by the earliest Masters. Engraved & Printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

London / New York, Federick Warne and Co., c. 1877. Octavo. 56 pages. 11 full-page illustrations by Crane. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Pages detached. But all illustrations in very good condition. Cover stronger worn ! Inscribed: “Chrissie Begg – All good wishes for Christmas from Florence Miller”.

47. Crottet, Robert / Méndez, Enrique.

Lapland. Photographed by Enrique Méndez.

First Edition. Helsinki, Weilin+Göös, 1968. 23.7cm x 21.4cm. 31 pages of text plus 128 spectacular photographs of the Lapland regions. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

48. De Brunhoff, Laurent.

Serafina The Giraffe.

London, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm. [26 pages] Abundant colour illustrations by author throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original richly illustrated orange cloth] lettering to spine. Good- condition. Minor rubbing to board corners. Cracks along length of both gutters between pastedowns and endpapers and at hinge of spine. Binding is tender at hinges but textblock is solid. Interior bright and clean with hint of foxing to edges. Ownership stamp of Charles U. Kruger, Educational Consultant’, in Switzerland on rear endpaper.

49. De Gasztold, Carmen Bernos / Godden, Rumer (translator).

The Creatures’ Choir. Illustrated by Jean Primrose.

New York, The Viking Press, 1965. 16 cm x 23 cm. 69 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, FINE condition.

50. Dean, David.

English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840.

London, Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1970. 21.8 cm x 27.8 cm. Black and white fronispiece. Unpaginated. With 77 full page illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page edges. Pages very lightly tanned. Otherwise interior pages clean and unmarked.