7461. Herbert, A. S.

Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961. Revised and Expanded By A.S. Herbert.

London / New York, The British and Foreign Bible Society / The American Bible Society, 1968. 19.2 cm x 25.4 cm. XXXI, 549 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Gilt decoration and title on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges. Small tear to mylar. Otherwise clean and bright. Contains Errata – leaf / ‘Errata to Historical Catalogue’.

7462. Park, Mungo.

Travels in the Interior of Africa.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1893. 14 cm x 18 cm. Frontispiece, XVIII, 392 pages. 5 engraved illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to edges. Internally, tight, bright and clean with sharp corners. Front pastedown carries presentation bookplate with message “St Patrick’s School, Salter Street, Prize Awarded to Evan Jenkins for Regular Attendance Year Ending Oct 31st 1895 – 402 out of 422 times.”

7463. Anisimova, A. I. (ed.) / Georgia Petrusova.

Balet Gosudarstwennogo Ordena Lenina Akademitscheskogo Bolschogo Teatra SSSR. With many photographs by Georgia Petrusova.

Moscow, Gosudarstwennoe Isdatelhstwo Isobrasitelhnogo Iskysstwa, 1955. 23 x 26,5 cm. Unpaginated. Approximately 200 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. Russian Edition. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Rare !!! From the library of Margot Fonteyn – Photographer Keith Money !

7464. Bastian, H. Charlton.

The Nature and Origin of Living Matter. With 245 illustrations from photomicrographs.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. 15 x 23.5cm. 344 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Some signs of external wear, including water stain to rear board, otherwise in very good condition with binding solid and text clear.

7465. Bruck, Edith.

Mio splendido disastro. [Signed / Inscribed]

First Edition. Milan, Bompiani, 1979. 12 x 21 cm. 164 pages. Original illustrated softcover. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Edith Bruck to american poet and translator Ruth Feldman.

7466. Jones, Stephen.

A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation.

Fourth edition (corrected). London, Robinson / Longman and Rees / Wallis, 1802. 8.5 x 13.5cm. Unpaginated. Hardcover / Contemporary, full morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on board edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Very minor signs of wear to spine and corners, otherwise excellent condition. Binding solid and text clear and bright. Previous owner’s name on title page: “Susan Courteney, died 10 June 1808”.

7467. Montes de Oca, Marco Antonio / Marichal, Juan.

Poesia reunida (1953-1970).

Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Mexicano, 1971. 8°. 422 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. First edition of the collected poems to date. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to front panel. Inscribed and signed by Montes de Oca to literary critic Juan Marichal in the year of publication.

7468. Symons, N.V.H.

The Story of Government House [Raj Bhavan].

Bengal, Bengal Government Press, 1935. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece (Lord Wellesley as Govenor General, 1800 from a painting by R. Home), 155 pages, XVII. Some black and white photographic plates and illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with obvious signs of external wear. Book block and binding intact although frontipiece is cleanly detached. Message in ink pen to endpaper “With love to Henry from the Staff 29/5/46”. Covers slightly warped.

7469. Bruck, Edith.

Nuda proprieta. [Signed / Inscribed] Subtitle.

Venezia, Marsilio, 1993. 21.4cm x 12.5cm. 152 (8) pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Edith Bruck to american poet and translator Ruth Feldman.

7470. Herbert, Agnes [″The Authoress”].

Two Dianas in Somaliland. A Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert / With Twenty-Five Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs.

Second Edition. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 306 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent version of this rare book in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occasional spotting but interior otherwise bright and clean. Foxing to edges. Some untrimmed pages throughout.