21. Pearse, Pádraic H.

Plays – Poems – Stories.

Sixth Edition. Dublin/Cork/Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., [1924]. 8°. Portrait of Pearse as Frontispiz, XIX, 340, VIII pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Preowner’s name on endpaper (″Katie O’Shea”). [Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse].

22. Steinbuch, Johann Georg.

Analecten neuer Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen für die Naturkunde. Mit zwei Kupfern.

Fürth, im Bureau fuer Litteratur, 1802. Octavo. 135 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Interimsbroschur des 19.Jahrhunderts. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig, Titel mit altem Stempel. Mit handschriftlicher Korrektur im Text [Salamander statt “Eidechsen und Froesche”] / Ehemaliges Exemplar der koeniglichen Bibliothek der Akademie Schwedens.

23. [Trattner]

Institutionum Grammaticarum Linguae Graecae Pars Altera Ad Usum Scholarum Austriacarum. Continens: Supplementa Grammatica, Chrestomathiam Graecam, Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum.

Vienna, Trattnern, 1795. 18cm x 12cm. 546 pages plus Appendix with ″ Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum” [120 unnumbered pages]. Original Hardcover in protective Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor external signs of wear. [Exemplar von Friedrich Georg Julius Heinrich Freiherr von Lasberg, mit seinem Besitzvermerk auf dem Vorsatzblatt].

24. Verne, Jules / [Austin, Henry].

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Illustrated [with two Frontispieces] by Henry Austin.

Two Volumes in One (complete). London, Ward, Lock & Co., no year (c. 1902). Octavo (14 cm x 18,5 cm). Part I: Frontispiece (with Nautilus Submarine), VII, 146 pages / Part II: Frontispiece, 185 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Hardcover / Original, very decorative, illustrated publisher’s binding with a stunning design after Henry Austin. The notoriously fragile publication was professionally rectored and strengthened with new endpapers. Tight and firm. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by a private owner: “″James Ernest Howell, with love from his father”.