6391. Sainati, Augusto.

Le Opere degli Scrittori Italiani. Volume Primo: Secoli XIII – XV. / Volume Secondo: Secoli XVI – XVIII. / Volume Terzo: Secoli XIX – XX. Edizione completamente Rifatta del Manuale di P. Carli e A. Sainati.

Quarta Ristampa. Three Volumes (complete). Firenze (Florenz), Publishers: Felice le Monnier, 1970. 8°. 1167 / 1459 / 1616 Pages. Original Hardcover-Volumes (titled, illustrated). Italian Edition. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No Owner-Notation! The Volumes are in near fine condition with minor bumps to the corners.

6392. Dawe, Gerald.

The Rest is History.

First Reprint. Newry, Abbey Press, 1998. Octavo. 123 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Examines Belfast through its poetry and culture. Signed and inscribed by Gerald Dawe to John and Hilary Wakeman.

6393. Black, William George.

Folk Medicine: A Chapter in the History of Culture. Publication of the Folk-Lore Society, for collecting and printing relics of popular antiquities & c.

Special reprint edition of London, Elliot Stock, 1883. Delanco NJ, The Classics of Medicine Library, 2001. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. II, 228 pages. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament on spine with raised boards. Gilt design and ruling to boards. All edges gilt. Dutch marbling to pastedowns and endpapers. Red silk ribbon bookmarker. Near fine conditon externally and internally. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

6394. Hughes, Robert.

American Visions. The Epic History of Art in America.

London, The Harvill Press, 1997. 4°. IX, 635 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Rare in this excellent condition.

6395. Ricœur, Paul.

Philosophie de la Volonté. Le Volontaire et l’Involontaire.

Paris, Aubier – Editions Montaigne, 1949. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. 464 pages. Couverture originale souple avec protection en Mylar. / Original softcover in protective Mylar. Bon état avec seulement des signes mineurs d’usure externe. Reliure fragile. / Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Fragile binding. [Philosophie de l’Esprit]

6396. [Andersen, Hans Christian] Heltolft, Kjeld.

H.C. Andersens Billedkunst.

Kobenhavn, Gyldendal, 1969. 20 cm x 27.2 cm. 108 pages. With 35 blacka and white and colour plates & 1 folded plate. Original Softcover with original dustjacket. Good+ condition. Dustjacket in poor condition with some fraying. Deckled edges. Contains ephemera; Typed letter signed from the year 1974, addressed by the Publicity Manager of publisher Victor Gollancz (Georgina Denison) to Erik Haugaard in Ballydehob (Ireland), regarding the return of this book from “The National Book League” and the arranging of an “exhibition with the Danish Embassy next year to mark the centenary”. Inscribed by Kjeld Heltoft to Myrna and Erik Haugaard. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

6397. Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge).

Scéal Lorna Doone. Ar n-a chur i nGaedhilg do Aindrias Ó Baoighill.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1934. Octavo. 932 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with a large tear an missing space to front cover.

6398. Johnston, Harry.

Pioneers in West Africa. With Eight Coloured Illustrations By the Author.

London, Glasgow, and Bombay, Blackie and Son Limited, no year [c. 1912]. 13.5 cm x 19.3 cm. Frontispiece,336 pages. 16 illustrations in total – 8 colour and 8 monochrome. 2 maps within. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy cloth] with title on spine. Very special combination of an original publisher’s cloth and bespoke, gilt-stamped Mundella School binding (Nottingham). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight foxing to edges. Interior bright, tight, clean and sharp cornered. Front pastedown carries presentation-bookplate of Mundella School, Nottingham, awarding prize to “Leonard John Ross – Second Position on Form List III E. First in Geography, Midsummer 1925 R.B. Wright M.A. (Cantab) [HeadMaster]”. [″Pioneer” Library].

6399. McCormick, Michael.

Origins of the European Economy – Communications and Commerce A.D. 300-900.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 26 cm. xxviii, 1101 pages with illustrations, maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Name of preowner on endpaper. Few minor entries to rear endpaper. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and this edition more valuable because its dustjacket is in the protective Mylar that allows handling without losing the value of the expensive Volume.

6400. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Two Bad Mice [with vintage Ephemera advertising leaflet on Beatrix Potter “Jig-Saw Puzzles” / “Peter Rabbit’s Bookshel” etc.]

[1904 stated verso titlepage]. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1904. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 58 (2) pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover with illustrated original endpapers. Binding shaky with interior bookblock slightly broken (no effect on the outer spine) ! Pages slightly loosened. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior excellent ! The loosely inserted advertising leaflet with a clean tear that separates one part of the leaflet.