6841. Bochenski, J.M.

Logik. Mit 4 Tafelbeilagen. Die erste umfassende Darstellung der gesamten – der westlichen wie der östlichen – Geschichte der formalen Logik, vom zeitgenössischen Standpunkt aus, in erläuterten Dokumenten, mit einer ausführlichen Bibliographie. Zugleich ein einzigartiges historisches Lehrbuch der Logik.

First Edition. Munchen, Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg, 1971. Size. XV, (1) 639 (1) pages. Original Hardcover in originalem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand. Exemplar des Schweizer Philosophen Rolf A. Eberle (1931-2014) [Eberle worked intensely on the Ontological thought of Nelson Goodman]. Mit seinem Namenszug und Adresse seiner Wahlheimat in Los Angeles, California, auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Kleiner Ausriss am vorderen Vorsatzpapier. Dieses Buch ist mittlerweile extrem Selten !

6842. Hyde, Philip / Berger, Bruce.

A Glen Canyon Portfolio [20 Vintage Photographs] / “There was a River” [Essay by Bruce Berger].

Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 1979. Folio. 20 Large, Vintage, Black-and-White Photographs measuring 11 28 cm x 36 cm. With two booklets. Introductory Booklet with “Photographer’s Comment” by Philip Hyde (4 pages) / Essay – Booklet by Bruce Berger (12 pages). Original Softcover with photographs and booklets loosely inserted. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6843. O’Casey, Sean.

Three Volumes of Sean O’Casey’s famous Autobiography: I. I Knock at the Door – Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me (Rare Second Edition, Printed in the year of the First Edition, 1939) / III. Drums under the Windows (First Edition 1945) / VI. Sunset and Evening Star (First Edition, 1954).

Three Volumes (of Six). London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 – 1954. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Volume I (″I Knock at the Door”): includes a fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “Mrs.Susan Casside in a Gala Dress”, VII, 268, [3] pages / Volume III (″Drums under My Window”): includes a Frontispiece-Photograph of “The Rev.E.M.Griffin”, 339, [2] pages / Volume VI (″Sunset and Evening Star”: includes a very fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “The O’Casey’s” [Niall O’Casey, Breon O’Casey, Sean O’Casey, Shivawn [Shivaun] O’Casey, Eileen O’Casey], VII, 311, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. All three Volumes in their original state with the original dustjackets frayed but still very good. Volume I and III with two excellent Bookplates / Giftnote to dustjacket of Volume I; Giftnote to endpaper of Volume VI. Exlibris to pastedown “The Vernons” with artwork from artist H. Cutler” .

6844. Herzl, Theodor.

Das Palais Bourbon. Bilder aus dem französischen Parlamentsleben.

Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1895. 15 cm x 22.2 cm. 251 Seiten. Originales Halbleinen mit verblasstem Rückentitel. Bindung etwas berieben. Titelblatt mit kleinem Stempel. Innen tadellos bis auf einige Stockflecken auf den letzten zehn Seiten.

6845. Sapper / Cyril McNeile / [i.e. H.C. McNeile].

Oiléan an Uathbháis – [Island of Terror]. Proinnsias Ó Brógáin do chuir i nGaedhilg.

First gaelic edition. Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, Baile Átha Cliath, 1937. Octavo. 259 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

6846. Wandbrough, William Dyson.

The Portable Steam Engine: Its Construction and Management. A Practical Manual for owners and users of Steam Engines Generally.

First Edition. London, Crosby, Lockwood and Co., 1887. Small Octavo. Folded Frontispiece Illustration, XVI, 166 pages plus 7, 48, 15 pages of advertising. With 90 Illustrations and diagrams throughout the text. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor repair to the folded plate. Otherwise with very minor foxing only. Binding fully intact and firm. Rare !

6847. [Wolff, Kurt] Sorokin, Pitirim.

Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology.

Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1956. Large Octavo. 357 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good in blue cloth-covered boards, lacking dust jacket. Dust jacket material has been pasted to the inside of the front cover. First English edition. From the library of sociologist Kurt Wolff, with his ownership signature to the front blank.

6848. Marryat, Frederick [Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson].

Poor Jack. Illustrated by Clarkson Stanfield.

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1859. 18 cm. VIII, 500 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece, in black and white. Original illustrated hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is noticeable rubbing to the spine and it has become slightly frayed at its top and bottom; also, an inside page has been cut/torn. Inscribed and signed by Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson to Charles E. Hoyle in 1928.

6849. Anonymous / [Synge, Mary / Carr, Dr.D.W. and others] .

Mercy and Truth – A record of C.M.S. Medical Missions – Volume IV. [for the year 1900 – with essays on: Women Patients Rich and Poor – by Mary Synge about a fishing Village called Sang Sua / A Week in the Kyber (Khyber Pass visit by three workers of the C.M.S. during their time at Peshawar / The Opening of the New Mengo Hospital – by Mrs. Albert Cook (with images) / Medical Staff at Hang-chow (Dr. Kember, Dr. Main, Dr. Tsang), Some Men and Women in Hakodate (North Japan) / A Day of Medical Work in a Persian Town (by Henry White) / In Touch with the sick in Oyo (Yoruba) – with support from the Royal irish Constabulary / Moslem Fatalism (by L. Cropper in April 1899) / Photograph of a Temporary Hospital in Onitsha, West Africa / An Acquaintance with sickness in Central Africa [with a diagram that shows how many and what kind of operations were done (Teeth Extractions, Gynaecological Cases etc.) and how the natives paid for the treatment with Shells !!] / Dr. L.G. Hill of Pakhol – Overcoming Obstacles in China / Photograph of “Serai at Lundi Kotal – C.M.S. Dispensary in the Corner / etc. etc.

London, Church Missionary Society, 1900. Slim Quarto. 300 pages with numerous photographs and Index. Hardcover, light blue publisher’s cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. Binding a little stained and rubbed. Otherwise in excellent condition ! Rare !! Name of Patience Conner on title.

6850. Roberts, Ned H.

The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle. By Ned H. Roberts – Revised and Enlarged from the Privately Printed Edition. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings by the author and others.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1952. Folio. Frontispiece (Roberts with a McGirr Squirrel Rifle), (10), 308 pages. Modern, professional Hardcover-binding (Beautiful quarter Buckram). Excellent condition after applying a new and excellent binding. The image shows this book together with similar publications.