1841. [Dio Cassius / Lucius Cassius Dio] Bekkero, Immanuele [August Immanuel Bekker].

Cassii Dionis Cocceiani Rerum Romanarum Libri Octoginta, Tomus Prior & Alter.

Two Volumes (complete set). Leipzig, Weidmann, 1849. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XIV, 535 pages / Volume II: 494 pages. Hardcover / Very decorative, original half leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and marbled-paper-covered boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One spinelabel slithly loosened. Some minor signs of foxing.

1842. Diodorus Siculus.

Bibliothecae Historicae – Libri Qui Supersunt E Recensione Petri Wesselingii Cum Interpretatione Latina Laur. Rhodomani Atque Annotationibus Variorum Integris Indicibusque Locupletissimis. Nova editio, cum commentationibus III Chr. Gottl. Heynii [Christian Gottlob Heyne] et cum argumentis disputationibusque Ier. Nic. Eyringii.

[Editio Bipontina] / Bilingual Edition in Greek and Latin. 11 Volumes [complete set]. Biponti [Zweibrücken], Ex typographia Societatis, 1793. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: CLXXXII, 476 pages / Volume II: 565 pages / Volume III; 645 pages / Volume IV: LXXII, 400 pages / Volume V: 638 pages / Volume VI: 680 pages / Volume VII: 680 pages / Volume VIII: 568 pages / Volume IX: 553 pages / Volume X: 493 pages plus 1 unnumbered page of Corrigenda / Volume XI: 456 pages. Hardcover / Original full vellum with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very few Volumes with the pages a bit dusty and only some Volumes with a minor, faded dampstain to the outer margins. [From the library of Augustus Langdon, Bayswater, with his Exlibris to pastedown].

1843. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus] Weismann, Carl Julius.

De Dionysis Halicarnassei – Vita et Scriptis. Dissertatio Inauguralis quam Amplissimo Philosophorum Marburgensium Ordini ad Summos in Philosophia Honores Rite Capessendos.

Rinteln, Steuber, 1837. 4°. 30 Seiten. Originale Broschur mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Etwas angestaubt. Kleiner Einriss und mit einigen Eselsohren. Inaugural-Dissertation der Universität Marburg.

1844. Dircks, Henry.

Perpetuum Mobile; or, a History of the Search for Self-Motive Power, from the 13th to the 19th Century [Author’s own copy]. Illustrated from various authentic Sources, in Papers, Essays, Letters, Paragraphs, and numerous Patent Specifications.

First Edition. London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1861. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XLI, 558 pages. Hardcover / Full leather with gilt lettering and rich ornament on spine and boards. All edges gilt. The author’s own copy with his bookplate to the pastedown. Henry Dircks must have given his special bound “author’s copy” away because the endpaper bears his inscription to Dr. John Waggett MD FRCS (1818-1909), London’s beloved General Practicioner, Vaccinator and Honorary Surgeon to the local dispensary for the poor: “Dr.Waggett – With the author’s compliments – May 1862”. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1845. Dirks, Lore.

Mein Mann Angelt [German Book – Title translates: “My Husband is an Angler”].

Melsungen, Neumann-Neudamm, 1963. Octavo. 124 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket slightly torn. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1846. Dirksen, Enne Heeren [auch Enno Heeren Dirksen].

Über die Bedingungen der Integrabilität der Differenzial-Functionen von mehreren Veränderlichen.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 20 Seiten (Seiten 79 – 98 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). 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 dem Jahre 1836].

1847. Disraeli, Benjamin.

Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance. With an Introduction by Philip Guedalla.

Volume four of twelve (Incomplete). London, Peter Davies, 1927. 16 cm x 23,5 cm. XI, 364 pages. Hardcover / Original black cloth with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Blind stamp on front cover with gilt ornaments and lettering on spine. Exlibris / Bookplate of Peter Tiarks Ede on front pastedown. Chipping to dustjacket, otherwise in good condition with some signs of external wear. The Bradenham Edition.

1848. [Disraeli, Benjamin] Blake, Baron Robert Norman William.

Disraeli by Robert Blake [SIGNED First Edition].

First Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. Large Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Disraeli, XXIV, [1], 819 pages with 16 illustrations and two maps within the text. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth without the dustjacket [Price includes the preparation of a custom-made clamshell-box for the buyer of this extremely rare book]. Private giftinscription on endpaper. Binding a bit fragile and rear gutter starting. Boards slightly stained and a bit grubby. Still in very good condition. Interior very clean. This is one of the rare opportunities to buy this Magnus Opus in a signed version, which is nearly impossible to find ! Signed and dated by Baron Blake on the titlepage: “Robert Blake – March 31st 1970”.

1849. Ditfurth, Franz Wilhelm von [Hrsg.].

Die historisch-politischen Volkslieder des dreissigjährigen Krieges. Aus fliegenden Blättern, sonstigen Druckwerken und handschriftlichen Quellen gesammelt und nebst den Singweisen zusammengestellt.

Heidelberg, Winter, 1882. 8°. XVI, 355 S. 37 Notenbeispiele. Hardcover / Modernes Ganzleinen mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Die eingebundene, originale Titelbroschur sauber geloest (liegt bei). Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Alter Besitzvermerk / Kaufvermerk auf der Broschur: Ex Libris List & Francke, 1885 – 3 MK, 80 pf.

1850. Dittes, James E.

The Church in the Way.

New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967. 22.8cm x 15.2xm. xvii, (3) 358 pages. Original softcover. Endpaper clipped (preowner removed name). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Scribner Studies in Contemporary Theology.