2951. Hains, B.A./ Horton. A.

Central England. British Regional Geology.

Third Edition. London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1969. 16 x 24,5 cm. IX, 141 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

2952. Hajek, Lubor.

The Osaka Woodcuts. Reproductions by W. Forman. Catalogue by J.V. Neustupny.

London, Spring Books, No Year [Circa 1950]. 20.7 cm x 26.3 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 99 pages. 53 pages of colour illustrations with 1 fold-out. Hardcover / Illustrated Japanese Blockbook-style-binding. Black cloth-case with button and string loop. Binding stained but else in Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slipcase slightly worn. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

2953. Hake, Fritz von.

Zusammenbruch und Aufstieg des französischen Wirtschaftslebens 1789-1799.

München, C. H. Becksche Verlh, 1923. Gr.-8°. V, 258 Seiten. Hardcover / Privates Halbleinen mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Bibliotheksexemplar mit den üblichen Stempeln und Schildchen. Bis auf die Markierungen als Bibliotheksexemplar, in sehr guter Erhaltung.

2954. Hala, Patrick.

Solesmes, les écrivains et les poètes (1833-1954).

Solesmes, Éditions de Solesmes, 2011. Gr.-8°. VII, 525 pages with many photographs of french writers. Softcover / Broché. Très bon état.

2955. Haldane, Sean.

Lines from the Stone Age.

First Edition. London, Greenwich Exchange, 2000. Octavo. 59 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some slight staining to the cover. Signed by the author.

2956. Hale, Matthew.

Contemplations Moral and Divine [Bound with “Meditations upon the Lord’s Prayer”].

True First Edition. The Second Part. London, Printed for William Shrowsbury at the Bible in Duke-lane and John Leigh at the Blew-Bell in Fleet-Street, 1676. Octavo (13 cm x 18 cm). Pagination: The Second Part: Titlepage [1], Preface [5], Conten-page [1], 243 pages with several Treatises / Pagination of: “Meditations upon the Lord’s Prayer”: 222 pages. Original first edition in a modern, recently designed half-leather – binding with new spine-label and marbled-paper-covered boards and new endpapers. The Volume in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition.

2957. [Hales, William].

Irish Pursuits of Literature, in A.D. 1798, and 1799, consisting of I. Translations, II. Second Thoughts, III. Rival Translations, IV. The Monstrous Republic [The Monstrous Republic – Or, French Atrocities Pourtrayed [sic] Portrayed], V. Indexes.

Dublin, Printed for J. Milliken and J. Wright [London], 1799. Large Octavo. [2], XXVII, [1], 153, [1], 99, 71 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interim – binding, paper-covered boards with spinelabel. Very good condition ‘Sammelband’ with several works bound in one. Only minor signs of external wear. The interior in excellent, near Fine condition. Extremely scarce compilation. From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle (County Cork), with his name in ink on titlepage and loosely inserted his bookplate.

2958. [Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

2959. Haliday, Charles / Brendain O Riordain (introduction).

The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin. Edited with some Notice of the Author’s Life by John P.Prendergast.

Reprint of the Second Edition – Dublin, 1894. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1969. 15 cm x 24 cm. CXXIII, 300 pages. Illustrated with maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Extensive spotting on endpapers and some on pages edges and spine. Interior pages mostly clean with intact binding. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

2960. [Halifax, 1st Marquess of] George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

The Lady’s New-year’s Gift : Or, Advice to a Daughter. Under these following Heads, Viz. Religion, Husband, House and Family. Servants, Behaviour and Conversation, Friendships, Censure, Vanity and Affectation, Pride, Diversions, Dancing.

The Second Edition Corrected by the Original. London, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower in Westminster-Hall and James Partridge at Charing-Cross, 1688. Duodecimo (7 cm wide x 12.5 cm high). [II], 164 pages (collation complete). Hardcover / 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Very few pages with minor wormhole-damage only and some pages with some minor tears and fraying. The binding firm and with minor damage only. Some very few entries with ink by the pre-owner. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear of this extremely rare and early edition of one of the rarest publications of advice on prudence and virtue, written by the Marquess of Halifax and published as an address to his daughter Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1677 – 1708). Later editions are more common but this 17th century publication is the nicest version of this book we have ever handled.