7141. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

7142. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Notions in Garrison. [SIGNED by Edith Somerville]. Illustrated Edith Œ. S[omerville].

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1941. Octavo (17.8 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). IX, 134 pages with ten illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The very rare dustjacket with some fraying and staining. Beautifully signed by Edith Somerville on the titlepage.

7143. Somerville, E. Œ. [Edith].

Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting. By E.OE. Somerville, M.F.H. Joint Author of “Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.”, “A Patrick’s Day Hunt”, &c. [With the printed dedication: “Dedicated in token of ancient friendship to The West Carbery Hounds”].

London / New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Folio (31 cm wide x 39.4 cm high). 85 pages with opposing full-page plates in colour. Original Hardcover with illustrated cover in protective Mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One page detached. A rare and complete set of this wonderful work of caricature of West Cork Hunts and Local People, familiar to Edith Somerville.

7144. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin (Edith Somerville and Violet Martin).

The Big House of Inver.

London / Melbourne / New York, Quartet Books, 1978. 11 x 20cm. 312 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on half-title page.

7145. Somerville, E. OE. / Ross, Martin.

The Real Charlotte.

London / New York, Quartet Books, 1986. 12.5 x 20cm. 344 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed with previous owner’s name.

7146. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin (that is Violet Martin).

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. [Inscribed / Signed by Violet Martin] Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from ‘Sketches by Edith Œ. Somerville’.

London, W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1893. 19.8cm x 13cm. vii, 200 (33) pages with several illustrations. Original publisher’s binding (the red cloth variant),decoratively illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Good condition still with the binding shaky and the cover stroonger rubbed. Front free endpaper sellotaped. One of the very rare occasions in which Violet Martin signed with her full name, a few months prior to the books official publication in November 1892. Very rare, early Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (Violet Martin) title !

7147. Sommer, Christian.

Grundlage zu einem vollkommenen Staat.

[Nachdruck der Ausgabe] Köln 1802. [Königstein], Scriptor, 1979. 20 cm. 256 Seiten. Hardcover (Leinen). Neuwertig (noch in Folie eingeschweißt). [Scriptor-Reprints : Aufklärung und Revolution : Dt. Texte 1790 – 1810.]

7148. Sommer, James van / Spohr, Louis / Keller, Karl / Beethoven, Ludwig van / Hummel, Johann Nepomuk / Weber, Carl Maria von / Eberwein, Traugott Maximilian / etc.

Manuscript of: “Songs &c., chiefly by German Composers. With English Words by James van Sommer, by whom also the Music was ruled and transcribed”. / 19th century Manuscript by british composer James van Sommer with transcriptions of German Lieder in poetry form and score. Marvellous original manuscript with early transcriptions into english of some unusual composers. The manuscript in a beautiful and steady hand in ink/ Originales Manuskript von Transkriptionen teilweise ungewoehnlicher Lieder deutscher und europaeischer Komponisten des spaeten 18. und fruehen 19.Jahrhunderts. Wundervolle, sehr akkurate Handschrift.

[England, possibly Hoxton], James van Sommer, 1837. Octavo. 157 pages. Modern, unsophisticated Hardcover with new endpapers. Excellent condition.

7149. Sontag, Frederick.

Love Beyond Pain: Mysticism Within Christianity.

New York / Ramsey / Toronto, Paulist Press, 1977. 13.5 x 20cm. 137 pages. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, internally in very good condition.

7150. Sophokles.

Antigone. Eine Tragödie. Übertragen von August Böckh.

Leipzig, Insel Verlag, unbekannt. 12 x 18,5 cm. 61 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. [Insel-Bücherei]