1. Smith, Lyn.

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust. A new history in the words of the men and women who survived.

London, Ebury Press, 2005. 16 x 24 cm. XVIi, 352 pages, including images. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Martz, Sandra Hademan (Editor).

I am becoming the woman I’ve wanted.

Watsonville, CA, Papier-Mache Press, 1994. 18 x 24 cm. XVI, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The dustjacket stronger frayed. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Giftinscription to endpaper.

3. Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente; Brown, Irving Henry.

The Enemies Of Women. (Los enemigos de la mujer). Translated from the Spanish by Irving Brown.

New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1920. 13 x 20 cm. 547 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of Erik Christian Haugaard – the danish writer and translator of the works of Hans Christian Andersen. With his beautiful exlibris to the pastedown.

4. Margaret, Queen of Navarre.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Translated from the French with a Memoir of the Author by Walter K. Kelly.

Two Volumes in one (complete set). London, Published for the Trade, no date [c.1918]. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Margaret, Volume I – 183 pages / Volume II – 245 pages. Illustrated throughout the two volumes. Original Hardcover. Binding a little shaky. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Duras, Claire Duchesse de.

Ourika.

Édition Originale. Paris, Chez Ladvocat, 1824. 18 x 11 cm. 172 pages. Relié plein cuir vert / Beautiful contemporary Hardcover. Intérieur bon état malgré légéres rousseurs éparses. Couverture défraichie et tachée. Provenance: Exlibris: A Debidour (Élie Louis Marie Marc Antonin Debidour) / Premiere edition dans le commerce après la rare édition originale publiée entre 25 et 40 exemplaires en décembre 1823 par l’Imprimerie royale pour les amis de l’auteur. Ce court récit fut rapidement écrit en 1820 lors d’une retraite de convalescence. Sollicitée par Chateaubriand, ami de la Duchesse de Duras depuis 1809, qui avait parti- culièrement aprécier le texte, l’auteur se décida à publier l’ouvrage anonymement. L’histoire de cette jeune sénégalaise, éduquée en France se rendant compte à l’âge de 12 ans des préjudices liés à sa couleur de peau, est considérée comme le premier roman de la littérature française à aborder les problèmes de racisme. / First published edition, following a private printing of 25 copies. A very good+ copy in contemporary paper-covered boards. An anonymously published novel by a French woman who was a close friend of Chateaubriand and who established a well-known salon in London. Her work has been compared to that of Richardson and Rousseau for obvious reasons, but she is perhaps more relevantly understood in the context of the early 19th-century French women’s writing that has only rather recently become a subject of study. Based on the true story of a Sengalese servan, unaware of her race until she overhears talk of it among the French family for whom she works, and thus begins her life as a black woman. In large part the tale recounts her hopeless love for a white man and her eventual retreat to a convent. This is the first European novel featuring a black female protagonist, and according to John Fowles who at least in part based his own The French Lieutenant’s Woman on the work, the first attempt by a European to enter the mind of a black character. An attractive copy of this cultural landmark.

6. [Raphael] Williams, Mary E[lizabeth].

The Hours of Raphael in Outline – Together with the Ceiling of the Hall Where They Were Originally Painted.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1891. Large Folio (36.5 cm x 44 cm). 19 pages of text plus 16 plates. Illustrated Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering and ornament). The binding only slightly rubbed. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Currie, Harry Mac Leod.

The Individual and the State. [With a special chapter: Women and the State: The Dark Side / Women and the Abolition of War – Political and Diplomatic Moves / The Training of a Wife / Men and Women Equal / The Stoic View of Sexual Equality / The Roman Matron]. Edited with an introduction by H. MacL. Currie.

London, Dent, 1973. 20 cm. XV, 135 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. (The ancient world: source books.).

8. McCoole, Sinead.

Easter Widows – Seven Irish Women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising.

Dublin, Doubleday Ireland, 2015. 24 cm. xvii, 444 pages. With illustrations (black and white, and colour). Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. Ward, Rachel.

Women, unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland – From ‘tea-makers’ to political actors.

Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006. 24 cm. xii, 196 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. [Gifford Girls] Clare, Anne.

Unlikely rebels – The Gifford girls.

Cork, Mercier, 2011. 22 cm. 319 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. One page dogeared.

11. Porter, Jane.

Flatha na h-Alban. – [Gaelic translation of “The Scottish Chiefs” [William Wallace]]. Domhnall Ó Grianna, translator.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, [1937]. Octavo. 546 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by VP (Victor Penney). 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 !

12. Des Salles, Héloïse.

The Adventures of Jonathan Seal. [Signed / Inscribed]

London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. Large Octavo. 55 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Héloïse Des Salles on the halftitle. Rare !

13. Cullen, Mary / Luddy, Maria [Editors].

Female activists – Irish women and change 1900-1960. [Mary Galway / Louie bennett / Kathleen Lynn / Hanna Sheehy Skeffington / Margaret Cousins / Helena Molony / Rosamond Jacob]

Dublin, Woodfield Press, 2001. 23 cm. 206 pages with several portrait illustrations. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Out-of-Print !

14. Alazard, Jean.

The Florentine Portrait.

First Schocken Edition. New York, Schocken Books, 1968. 13.5cm x 20cm. 235 pages with 63 illustrations. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

15. Smith, Cecil Blanche Woodham.

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910. With Illustrations.

London, Constable, 1950. 22 cm. (hbk). vii, 615, [4] pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some foxing only. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

16. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne Cinema Star.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1929. Small Octavo. 62 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations fully intact. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding firm but spine gone. One page slightly dogeared. A few minor stains. Rare !

17. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne in Town.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. Small Octavo. 60 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations fully intact. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding fragile. Two pages damaged with tear. Rare !

18. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne at the Circus.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., no year (c. 1930). Small Octavo. 60 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding fragile. Bookblock slightly detached. Two pages damaged with tear. Poor condition but still Rare !

19. [Preston Macgoun, Hannah C.] Brown, John.

Pet Marjorie – A Story of Child Life Fifty Years ago. Illustrated by Hannah C.Preston Macgoun.

London / Edinburgh, T.N.Foulis, 1907. Small Octavo. 101, (4) pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Upper spine with small damge. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a personal inscription: “To Maisie, with Love from M. MacBean – Chalmers Hospital – Edinburgh, 25.VII. 08”.

20. Ashford, Daisy.

The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteenas Plan. With a Preface by J.M.Barrie.

Fourth Impression. London, Chatto & Windus, June 1919. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 85 pages. Private Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

21. Bowman, Anne.

Charade Dramas for The Drawing-Room. With Illustrations. [Acting Charades by Anne Bowman].

London, George Rutledge and Sons, no year (c.1895). Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 114 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Original advertising endpapers and pastedowns present. With 8 illustrations (including the Frontispiece). All the illustrations show children acting a scene. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece and a few of the other 7 illustrations cleanly detached but in very good condition. Binding a little shaky but still intact and rather firm. Ex Libris / Bookplate of J.B. Findlay to pastedown. Extremely rare !

22. Potter, Beatrix.

Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes.

Third Printing – with “Ltd.” added to the publisher’s name. London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1919/1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 49 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket (Printed Price 3/6). Binding firm ! Frontispiece cleanly detached. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The jacket with some larger tear to the rear, some spotting and fraying (childrens drawing on the inside of the jacket).

23. Potter, Beatrix.

The Story of Miss Moppet.

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1918]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 34 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, priceclipped dustjacket (Printed Price 5/net). Binding firm ! Excellent condition of the Volume itself with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this condition. Tiny blemish to the illustration of rear endpaper. “The Town Mouse” present in the listing of Potter publications on the endpaper, which dates this edition at 1918. The jacket with some minor wear only.

24. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.

Later Edition with red lettering on cover. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1930]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 58 pages. Original Hardcover with original endpapers. Binding firm ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small stain to the bottom of pages 10/11. Unusual in this condition. Tiny blemish to the illustration of rear endpaper.

25. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

Later Edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, pages. Original Hardcover with original endpapers. Binding firm ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

26. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.

Later Edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, pages. Original Hardcover with original endpapers. Binding firm ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine and covers slightly stained. Minor stain on title and frontispiece.

27. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson.

Later Edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1942]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 111 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover with illustrated original endpapers. Binding firm ! Stain to lower frontcover. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior excellent !

28. 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.

29. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tailor of Gloucester.

Later Edition. [1903 stated verso titlepage]. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1910]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 85 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover with illustrated original endpapers. Binding firm ! Stain to frontcover. Uper spine slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very good with very few signs of foxing. Front endpapers starting (see the images i took of front and rear endpapers !).

30. Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spotting to the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.

31. Stevenson, Robert Louis / Olver, Kate Elizabeth.

A Child’s Garden of Verses. With an Introduction by Laurence Alma Tadema. Illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver.

London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, no year [c.1910]. Small Quarto (19 cm x 23.5 cm). 191 pages with six full-page-colour illustrations by Kate Elizabeth Olver and numerous beautiful black-and-white-illustrations throughout the text. Hardcover / original, illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spiena and board. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. The binding a little faded. Interior excellent with only two or three signs of foxing. All the colour-plates in place and in excellent condition.

32. Crespo, Ulrike.

Ulrike Crespo – Cold Landscape.

Heidelberg / Berlin, Kehrer-Verlag, 2013. 27 cm. 143 Seiten mit zahlreichen Photographien. Original, illustrated Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

33. [Crawford, Mabel] Anonymous.

Through Algeria.

London, Richard Bentley, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 362 pages. The frontispiece is a colour-lithograph of El Kantara. Attractive hardcover [publisher’s original purple cloth] with gilt lettering and ornamental design on spine. Gilt lettering and richly decorative tooling on front board. Blind tooling on back board also. Pebbled boards. All edges gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cloth frayed at spine head and tail. Slight cracking to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still very good and firm. Some foxing to endpapers. Interior very clean and bright. Some untrimmed pages. Handwritten message on front endpaper reads “A Prize gained by Louisea Mells for Progress in her French studies, Xmas. 1869. Magdalen House.” An extremely rare, rather scarce, early publication by an Irish Woman Traveller in Africa who also lived and helped through the Irish Famine and was not only an early Feminist but also one of the first members of the Suffragette Movement.

34. Crockett, S.R.

Sweetheart Travellers – A Child’s Book for Children, For Women, And for Men. Illustrated by Gordon Browne and W.H.C. Groome.

Third Edition. London, Wells, Gardner, Warton & Co. 1896. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 305 pages. 69 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original patterned green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Spine and front board carry inlaid pictorial images. Gilt top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Minor abrasions in gutter between front endpaper and pastedown. Binding still firm and strong.

35. Pemberton, A.C. / Harcourt Williamson, Mrs. / Sisley, C.P. / Floyd, Gilbert.

The Complete Cyclist. Illustrated. Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson.

London A.D. Innes & Co. 1897. 13 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 400 pages with numerous photographic plates and text-illustrations / humorous woodcuts (the photographs show for example Victorian cyclists in Hyde Park / Photograph of a group of Cyclysts after a “Gymkana” / Professional Cycling Race past the Grand Stand by the Wall Brothers, St.Kilda / Military Cyclist tilting at the Ring, etc.). Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and design on front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional minor foxing. Very rare, early publication on cycling in the victorian society ! [The Isthmian Library – No.2]

36. [Barter, Charlotte/Catherine] A Plain Woman.

Alone Among the Zulus – By a Plain Woman, the Narrative of a Journey Through the Zulu Country, South Africa.

Second Edition. London / New York, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge / E & J. B. Young & Co., no year [c. 1879]. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, II, 184 pages. With four illustrations (including Frontispiece) plus two examples of melodies transcribed in musical notes. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial design on spine and front board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tissue-guard in good condition. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners.

37. Coudenhove, Hans.

My African Neighbors – Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasaland.

First Edition. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1925. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XIV, 245 pages. With 12 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Preowner’s name (R.G.Poole) on front endpaper.

38. 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.

39. Mair, L.P. / [Lucy Philip Mair].

An African People in the Twentieth Century.

Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages. 8 illustrations. Map near front. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1934. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages with Index. Eight monochrome plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front pastedown carries bookplate / Exlibris of Charles P Groves.

40. Wilson, Sarah [Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill].

South African Memories – Social, Warlike and Sporting, From Diaries Written at the Time. With a Photogravure of Lady Wilson.

London, Edward Arnold. 1909. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 331 pages. 20 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt letter and design on front board. Gilt top edge. Deckled edges. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Tear to cloth at front hinge of spine but binding still firm and strong. Interior bright and clean and the bookblock tight and complete with all illustrations. Excellent Provenance: With tiny – bookplate: “The Times” – Book Club – Oxford Street, London.

41. Wilkinson, Mrs (Annie Margaret).

A Lady’s Life and Travels in Zululand and the Transvaal During Cetewayo’s Reign – Being The African Letters and Journals of the Late Mrs Wilkinson.

London, J.T Hayes, 1882. 13 cm x 19 cm. VIII, 264 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Name of preowner on endpaper in ink: “J. Babington Jones – June 1894” [possibly Julian Babington Jones]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

42. Gehrts, M. / [Major Hans Schomburgk].

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland. The Adventures, Observations and Experiences of a Cinematograph Actress in West African Forests Whilst Collecting Films Depicting Native Life and When Posing as the White Woman in Anglo-African Cinematograph Dramas. With an Introduction by Major H.Schomburgk.

Philadelphia / London, J. B. Lippincott Co / Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, 1915. 15.2 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 315 pages. 41 illustrations including frontis. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. One illustration slightly detached only. Interior is bright and clean. Binding is firm and strong. Rare in this very good condition. Tiny bookstamp from Chas.E. Lauriat Co. in Washington Street, Boston.

43. Kirkland, Caroline.

Some African Highways. A Journey of Two American Women to Uganda and the Transvaal. With Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. With an Introduction by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell.

London, Duckworth & Co, 1908. 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 345 pages. 46 illustrations. One fold-out map of Mombasa to Victoria (Railway) near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Tooling to front board edges. Embossment to lower corner of rear board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding is solid and square. Interior is bright and clean with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

44. Schreiner, Olive [Iron, Ralph].

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 346 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small embossment to front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to board corners. Small cutout (of old name) on halftitle. Interior lightly tanned throughout but bright and clean. Binding is strong, firm and square.

45. Menzies, Mrs. Stephen [editor].

The Traveller’s Guide from Death to Life.

London / Liverpool, S.W. Partridge & Co. / British Gospel Book Association, no year (c.1880). 18.5 cm x 25 cm. 160 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red pebbled-finished cloth]. Gilt stamped device with title and black tooled borders on front board. Blind border tooling to rear board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Faded cloth at spine. Binding still firm and solid. Sharp cornered interior clean and bright. Tricoloured Bookplate carrying “Sin, Subsitution, Salvation” and similiarly themed quotes. Preowner’s name on front endpaper. Loosely inserted ephemera: Maroon-coloured Recognition card of ‘Mrs Mary Maynard’ for the Young Women’s Christian Association with Biblical quotes dated ‘July 1885’.

46. Sikes, Sylvia / [Natural History of the African Elephant]

Personal Papers / Archive of Material Related to the Life and Career of Zoologist Sylvia Sikes, the Foremost African Elephant Specialist of her time. All materials from her personal collection / working copies and manuscript material. Including her extensive, two-volume-thesis: “Cardiovascular Disease in Freeliving Wild Animals with particular Reference to the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)”. A collection of professional and academic papers, copies of Sikes’ monographs, zoological manuscripts and a plethora of photographs and personal newsletters, letters, pamphlets and manuscripts spanning seven decades of Sikes’ personal and professional life in Africa and the UK. The collection is composed of 92 specific pieces (some of which are comprised of one or more items). A detailed bibliography of the collection has been outlined in a Word Document (please request). The collection also includes personal copies of three monographs Sylvia Sikes has published, an original copy of her two-volume doctoral thesis, 37 academic articles and 5 unpublished draft manuscripts. There are also 7 booklets and a book by a third author among the collection. The collection is rounded off by a large number of vintage colour and monochrome photographs, letters, single-sheet newsletters, newspaper and magazine cuttings.

Africa and the UK, Various, 1937 – 2012. 21 cm x 26 cm – 24.5 cm x 31 cm. Circa 2,500+ pages. Numerous monochrome and colour photographs throughout the collection. Includes Hardcover book with dustjacket, softcover book, reprints of academic journal articles in paper wrappers and a variety of loose material in cellophane files. The archive, running from 1937 to 2012, is contained in two green (24.5 cm x 31 cm x 10.5 cm) boxes, four additional folders (32 cm x 24 cm) and two hardcover volumes (21.5 cm x 26cm). Very good condition.

47. E. W. Nay – Nay, Elly.

Ein strahlendes Weiss. Meine Zeit mit E. W. Nay.

Berlin/Köln, H. Nay; [München] : [Hirmer], 1984. 4°. 199 Seiten. Illustriert (z.T. farbig). Hardcover. Leinen mit transparentem, illustriertem Umschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

48. Neumann, Erich.

Die Angst vor dem Weiblichen [Fear of the Feminine].

Rascher Verlag, 1949. 8°. 45 Seiten. Softcover. Originale Broschur. Separatabdruck aus “Die Angst” – Band X. (1949).

49. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

50. Frame, Janet.

The Carpathians.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 196 pages. Dustjacket designed by AB3 Design with an illustration by Dulce Tobin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

51. [Atwood, Margaret] Buhler Roth, Verena.

Wilderness and the Natural Environment – Margaret Atwood’s Recycling of a Canadian Theme.

Tubigen, Francke Verlag, 1998. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. VII, 206 pages. Original Hardcover with a cover photograph by Tom Thomson ‘Pine Treee’ (Oil on Panel, Art Gallery of Ontario). Important: A few pencil annotations in text. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten – Swiss Studies in English].

52. [Frame, Janet], Alley, Elizabeth

The Inward Sun – Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame. Selected and Edited by Elizabeth Alley.

Wellington, New Zealand, Daphe Brasell Associates Press, 1994. 14 cm x 22 cm. 214 pages. One black and white portrait photograph of Janet Frame by Jane Ussher on frontispiece. Softcover. Designed by Margaret Cochran. Edited by Ruth Munro. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Out-of-Print !

53. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

54. Lily Tuck.

Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1991. 15 cm x 22 cm. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and deckled edges. Jacket Design by Chip Kidd. Author photograph by Bill Hayward. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

55. Stein, Gertrude.

A Stein Reader – Gertrude Stein. Edited with an Introduction by Ulla E. Dydo.

Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIV, 624 pages. Softcover. Cover portrait – ‘Gertrude Stein’ by Pablo Picasso 1906, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Gertrude Stein). Cover Design Rich Hendel. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

56. Achmatowa, Anna.

Ich lebe aus dem Mond, du aus der Sonne – Liebes-Gedichte / Hundert Gedichte über die Liebe. Aus dem Russischen von Alexander Nitzberg Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Olaf Irlenkauser.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 118 pages. Cover image – drawing by Amedeo Modigliani. Image on back flap – photograph of Anna Akmatova in 1910. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

57. Morgan, Thais E.

Men Writing the Feminine. Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders.

Albany, New York, State University of New York Press 1994. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 207 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

58. Warner, Marina.

Signs & Wonders, Essays on Literature and Culture.

London, Chatto & Windus, 2003. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 516 pages. Jacket photo – Chris Stammers. Author Photo – Elke Bock. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

59. [Greenaway, Kate] Harte, Bret.

The Queen of The Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

Re-issue of the original 1886-edition. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1955. 16 cm x 22.2 cm. VIII, 64 pages. With colour frontispiece and twenty-seven colour text illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some tears and fraying to dustjacket. Only minor foxing to dustjacket and occasionally within the text. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

60. Mauriac, Francois.

Saint Margaret of Cortona. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.

New York, Philosophical Library, 1948. 13.8 cm x 20.5 cm. IX, 231 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Light rubbing to upper and lower spine. Discoloration to edges, endpapers, front and rear pastedowns. Dustjacket chipped. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

61. Hamilton, Jane.

The Book of Ruth.

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging and very minor foxing to spine/ hardcover. Very intact dustjacket with no wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

62. Kok, Truida.

De Vlierkamp. Geillustreed door Miep de Feijter.

Alkmaar, N.V. Gebr. Kluitman, c.1930. 15 cm x 23.2 cm. 202 pages. No illustration inside. Original Illustrated Hardcover. Binding a little shaky ! Still good condition of the binding. Noticeable wear and damage to the spine. Lines in pen and a few stains on the title page. Interior is very clean. Inscribed by pre-owners on title page. Pre-owners name on the endpaper. Dutch Edition.

63. Wynne, May / Cecily M. Rutley / Nancy Howard / Pauline Dunstan / Ethel Talbot / Jessie Pope / Agnes Grozier Herbertson etc. etc.

The Story Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. With Seven Colour Plates and Hundreds of Two-Colour and Other Pictures [by Margaret Tarrant, Mary Brooks, Anne Anderson, May Smith and others].

London / Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., No year [c.1930]. 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm. 224 pages. Original Illustrated Hardcover with coloured illustrations. The often damaged and worn book was recently restored and professionally rebound and is now a tight and firm version for generations to come. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper in pen and pencil. A few marks on endpaper and content page. Otherwise in very good condition. [The Wonder Book Series].

64. Zoomers-Vermeer, J.P. / [Langeler, Freddie]

Joosje uit de Heidehut. [With Illustrations by Freddie Langeler].

Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij, c.1928. 17 cm x 24 cm. 252 pages with 2 plates of balck and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rubbed and discoloration on cover. Minor stains and rubbed throughout the book. Spine is slightly worn but binding is very firm. Name of the previous owner on half-title page. Dutch edition. First page of bookplate is coloured by pre-owner in colour pencil. The book includes wonderful, rare illustrations by dutch women illustrator Freddie Langeler.

65. Wootton, David / Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith etc.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996 / 1880-1997. [With many short biographies and listings of women illustrators].

2 volumes (complete set). London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th – January 25th 1996).

66. Kumin, Maxine.

The Designated Heir.

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. 14.5 cm x 21.3 cm. 174 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Author on title-page. Endpaper and half-title are slightly separated.

67. Haslett, Caroline / Pares, Bip [Ethel Pares].

The Electrical Handbook for Women. Foreword by Sir John Snell. Edited for the Electrical Association for Women.

London, The English Universities Press Ltd., 1936. 8°. 428 pages. Hardcover with the rare, illustrated Art-Deco-Dustjacket by Bip Pares in protective Mylar. New and revised edition. Minor foxing only. Includes the folding map of the Central Electricity Board of the Grid Transmission Lines of England. Original cloth with original, illustrated dustjacket. The rare jacket, designed by Bip Pares, nearly complete, but torn and with some minor loss of paper to the rear endpaper.

68. Meier-Seethaler, Carola.

Ursprünge und Befreiungen. Eine dissidente Kulturtheorie.

Zürich, Arche, 1988. 8°. 561 Seiten. Illustriert. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen.

69. Greenaway, Kate.

Original Friendship Album / Album Amicorum with 4 colour-lithographs.

[London], ca. 1880. Oblong-12°. / Miniature Children’s Book (11 cm long x 7,3 cm high). 28 pages with 4 colour lithographs. Illustrated Hardcover. First page and two illustrations cleanly detached. Several entries of children in this friendship-album. The illustrated binding in very good condition. A Kate Greeneway Album Amicorum is extremely rare in any condition !

70. Millet, Kate.

The Basement – Meditations on a Human Sacrifice.

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979. 8°. 341 pages plus 10 pages with photographs. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Small tear to rear dustjacketflap. Remainder mark on the bottom edge. Signed by Kate Millet on the front free endpaper.

71. Calabrella, Catherine [Ball] Baroness de.

Evenings at Haddon Hall, a series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time. With illustrations by George Cattermole.

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 8°. VIII, 432 pages with 24 steel-engravings by George Cattermole. Original full calf. Spine faded and lettering slightly damaged. Very firm binding. Internally the text bright and very clean. The plates with some foxing. Private inscription from 1856 on the endpaper. Overall in very good condition. Rare.

72. Parker, Juli L.

Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television. Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality.

Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. XVIII, 424 pages. Original Hardcover. Some staining to the rear board. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

73. [Riddell, Charlotte Elizabeth] / [Riddell, William Easton].

A Bright Sunset – Or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Scottish Football Player. With introductory Note by J.H.Wilson.

First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Small Octavo. Pagination: Original portrait photograph of William Easton Riddell as Frontispiece, VI, (2), 142 pages with two wood-engravings (″Toward Point” and “Up the Kyles in the Ariel”). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover with a football-scene on the front board, gilt lettering and floral elements. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare first edition with the original photograph of William Easton Riddell. Private giftinscription on the front free endpaper.

74. Beaulieu, Mad. Mallès de / [Robinson Crusoe].

Le Robinson de douze ans – Histoire intéressante d’un jeune Mousse Français abondonné dans une ile déserte. Ornée de Gravures par Mme Mallès de Beaulieu, Auteur des Coules d’une Mère à sa Fille.

Paris, P.-C. Lehuby, no date (approx. 1818). Small – Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, Titlevignette, 288 pages with two further engravings (4 in total). Hardcover. Original, blue paper-covered boards, extensively decorated with gilt floral motifs and an inset illustration of the young Robinson and his dog on a beach. Very good condition. Interior remarkably clean. Fine example of a so-called Robinsonade, a fashionable adaptation of the original Robinson Crusoe story, in this case based on another “Robinsonade”, this is a somewhat modified and inspired version of Johann David Wyss’ famous publication “The Swiss Family Robinson”, which he published initially “to teach his sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance” (Wikipedia). In her publication “History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature”, Jackie C. Home writes that “The Bibliothèque Nationale de France online catalogue lists 35 French language editions of Mallès de Beaulieu’s novel, published between 1818 and 1923, suggesting that the novel was one of the most popular titles fro children in nineteenth-century France.”

75. [Pavlova, Anna] Saburova, Irina.

Immortal Swan: Dedicated to Anna Pavlova to the 25th Anniversary of Her Death in 1931-1956 (This Russian Edition is the only edition ever printed: Bessmertnyj lebed’: Posvjashhaetsja Anne Pavlovoj k 25-letiju so dnja ee smerti.)

New York, Dnipro, 1956. Oblong Quarto. 88 pages. With 128 photographic illustrations on coated paper. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely rare publication !!!

76. Gregory, Lady.

A Book of Saints and Wonders put down here by Lady Gregory according to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland.

Identical Reprint of the Original Dun Emer Press Edition from 1906. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1971. 16cm x 24cm 34 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Tiny inkstride on the front free endpaper. Name of preowner in ink on halftitle.

77. Adamson, Joy.

Born Free – A Lioness of Two Worlds. With extracts from George Adamson’s Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman.

Fifth Impression. London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1960. Octavo. 160 pages with wonderful photographs in colour and black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With two very interesting original newspaper – clippings on Joy Adamson included.

78. Roberts, Peter.

The Cambrian Popular Antiquities; or, An Account of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales with observations as to their Origins etc. [With a section: “Mry Thomas the fasting woman – near Dolgelley”]. Illustrated with Copper – Plates (Coloured from Nature).

London, E.Williams, 1815. Octavo. VIII, 3536, (1) pages with 10 illustrations of which 9 are handcoloured. Original Hardcover / Vintage 19th century Bayntun Binding (Bayntun-Riviere,Bath). In full red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Boards a little shaky. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

79. Clark, Timothy / C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

Shunga – Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. Timothy Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano.

London, British Museum Press, 2013. 30 cm. 536 pages with many color illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition iwth only very minor signs of wear.

80. [Newman, W. & Co.].

Dainty Dishes for Indian Tables.

Second Edition. Calcutta, W. Newman, 1881. Small Octavo. VIII, 448 pages plus several pages with advertising for menu cards and also an illustrated advertisement for a patented oven (Portable Mineral Oil Cooking Stove by T.E.Thomson & Co.). Hardcover / Original sage-green cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations on spine and front board. In protective Mylar. Edge slightly stained. Otherwise in unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear (some minor staining) and some minor bumping to corners. Binding firm.

81. [Inanna / Ishtar] Wolkstein, Diana / Kramer, Samuel Noah.

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth – Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.

Harper Perennial, 1983. Octavo. 256 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. New / Excellent condition.

82. [Clerke, Agnes Mary].

Collection of eight publications by and about Agnes Mary Clerke plus one autographed / signed manuscript-letter by Agnes Clerke [The letter answers the request of a fellow german Astronomer who complimented her on her History of Astronomy and asked for her permission to translate her latest work). The recipient is possibly german astronomer R.Engelmann who wrote about Nebula. The letter dates from 1891 and is written in perfect german (Agnes Clerke was known to have written reviews and letters in French, German, Greek and Italian). This rare collection includes the following books: 1. A.M.Clerke – Geschichte der Astronomie während des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Gemeinfasslich dargestellt. (Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von H.Maser) – First german edition of “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” from 1889 – with a signed, contemporary manuscript letter by Agnes Clerke in german (!) regarding this publication / 2. Agnes Clerke – Familiar Studies in Homer (London, 1892) / 3. Agnes Clerke – “The Herschels and Modern Astronomy” (with a loosely inserted portrait of Sir William Herschel) (London, 1895) / 4. Agnes Clerke – “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” (The important Fourth Edition, revised and corrected by the author) (London, Adam and Charles Black, 1902) – Famously: With the vintage photographs pasted to frontispiece and titlepage / 5. Agnes Clerke – “The System of the Stars” – Second Edition (London, 1905) / 6. Agnes Clerke – Modern Cosmogonies (London, 1905) / 7. Agnes Clerke – “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” 1908-Reprint of the important Fourth Edition, revised and corrected by the author) (London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908) / 8. Mary Brueck / Mary Brück – Agnes Mary Clerke & The Rise of Astrophysics (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

A mixture of first and later editions. Berlin / London, Springer / Cassell / Longmans & Green and others, 1889 – 1908. Octavo. More than 2500 pages with many illustrations and diagrams etc. / The vintage letter has two pages filled and signed by Clerke in ink / The only modern publication within the collection is a very important monograph on Clerke by scientist Mary Brueck / Mary Brück, published by Cambridge University Press (275 pages). Original Hardcovers in bespoke protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A stunning collection of all the major publications by this important woman astronomer. Agnes Clerke paved the way for women in science and must be seen as the pioneer female astronomer. The price includes worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express Courier.

83. [Sackville-West / Jekyll, Gertrude / Bowles, E.A. / Beales, Peter and many others]

Collection of 80 books on Garden History & Garden Design, mainly from the collection of Ann Geneva. The collection includes not only classics from Vita Sackville-West or Gertrude Jekyll but also some fantastic publications on the Social History of Gardens, Design of Period Gardens, History of Ancient Roman Gardens etc. etc.

London and others, Michael Joseph / Longmans, Green and many others, c.1906 – 2004. Octavo. More than 5000 pages with numerous illustrations and plans. Original Hardcover and Softcover-Bindings, ften with their illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection]. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express Courier.

84. Abu Taleb Tabrizi / Abu Taleb Isfahani / Mirza Abu Taleb Khan.

The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803. Written by himself, in the Persian language. [With an Appendix: ‘Author’s Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women’]. Translated by Charles Stewart, Esq.

First and only Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. Octavo. Frontispice-Portrait with original tissue-guard, VIII, (8), 320, 418 pages. Hardcover / Beautifully restored bindings by english master binders in stunning modern half-morocco with the original spine-labels applied. Original endpapers and pastedowns with the original bookplates / Exlibris preserved. Excellent condition with some browing and ghosting to the pages, as usual with this set. Name of historical preowner Richard Meade in ink on titlepages. Rare in this very amazing restored condition.

85. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho – A Romance; interspersed with some pieces of Poetry.

First Dublin Edition / First Irish Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. Dublin, , by Hillary and Barlow, for Messrs. P. Wogan, W. Jones, and H. Colbert, 1794. Small Octavo (17.5 cm x 11 cm). Collation complete: Volume I: 310 pages / Volume II: 321 pages / Volume III: 357 pages. [Few pages with misprinted numerals, as often the case, but all pages in order and complete]. Original, unaltered, 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very rare, complete set of the first Dublin Edition. Very good- condition with stronger signs of external wear but all three Volumes in firm, original condition. Lesions to the leather-covered-boards and some stronger rubbing to extremeties. Interior with only very few problems. All three Volumes used to have two endpapers before and after the text and some of these endpapers are torn or missing. Textblock in general very good with some very minor and only occasional staining only. In Volume I, tear to corner of page 101/102 and 135/136. Faded stain to only the outer margins of pages 239 to 310 (text never affected). Volume II with small tear to pages 21/22 / Volume III with lesion to page 281/282 and tear to corner 305. These all sound worse than they are and the set is still in very good- condition. From the library of the Meade family in Ballymartle, the titlepage of each Volume bears the name of Helena Meade. An extremely rare and highly collectable set of one of the rarest titles in english literature.

86. [Cork – West Cork / County Kerry History Pre-Famine] Nicholson, Asenath.

Ireland’s Welcome To The Stranger or An Excursion through Ireland in 1844 & 1845, for the Purpose of Personally Investigating the Condition of the Poor.

First Edition. New York, Baker and Scribner, 1847. Small Octavo. XV, 456 pages plus 22 pages of a catalogue for the publisher Baker and Scribner in the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and ornament to covers. Recently, professionally restored. Very good condition with the usual signs of some browning and foxing to this publication. From the library of Lathrop Josiah Tracy, Honesdale, Pennsylvania (1825-1897). With his name to the halftitle. A very rare and important book !

87. [Pattison, Dorothy W.] Lonsdale, Margaret.

Sister Dora – A Biography [of english nurse Dorothy W. Pattison].

Thirteenth Edition. London, C.Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. Octavo. Portrait – Frontispiece, VII, 257 pages. (besides the portrait – engraving of Dorothy Pattison, the volume also contains a “View from the Windows of Walsall Hospital”. Original Hardcover / Full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

88. Mead, Margaret.

Some Personal Views. Edited by Rhoda Metraux.

London and others, Angus and Robertson, 1979. Octavo. 286 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in Mylar. Binding slightly stained. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

89. [Saint Godelieve / Godeleva / Godeliève / Godelina / Sint-Godelieve] Sollerius, Joannes Baptista.

Acta S. Godelevae V. et M. patronae Ghistellensium.

Antwerp, apud Jacobum du Moulin [Jacob du Moulin], 1720. (15 cm x 18,5 cm). Collated: [24], 354, [15] pages including a thorough Index Rerum. With engraved title-vignette showing the murder of Saint Godelieve; with the title-vignette repeated on page one of the text and three further fold-out-illustrations (collation complete). Modern Hardcover (dark calf over marbled-paper-covered-boards) and new endpapers. Halftitle letter-press-text laid down an endpaper that precedes the title page. After the restoration and new binding the original bookblock is beautifully preserved and the whole volume in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some browning to a few pages. Very rare Hagiography of poor Godelieve, who was martyred by the servants of her angry husband because she preferred to become a nun rather than marry.

90. Mead, Margaret.

Male and Female – A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World [Including: “The Two Sexes in contemporary America” / “Our Complex American Culture”].

Second Impression of the first british edition. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. Octavo. XII, 477 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar / with publisher’s dustjacket-advertising-wrapper loosely inserted (Ephemera). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor signes of foxing only.

91. [Foster, Sir Michael] / [Sarah Cotter – Dublin Printing History].

A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry, and of other Crown Cases. To which are added Discourses upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law.

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed for Sarah Cotter, in Skinner-Row, 1763. Octavo. XI, 412 pages plus 16 pages of Index and “Table of the Principal Matters”. Original Hardcover / Full 18th century calf with new spine-label. The binding firm and in excellent condition. Important: Several strong puncture – wounds to the first 54 and last 60 pages (without loss of text). Some occasional staining but text overall clean. A very rare Sarah Cotter print from 18th century Dublin. Although no sign of it, the book came from the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House).

92. Twining, Elizabeth.

Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants With Groups and Descriptions. [With 160 full-page chromolithographic plates in colour].

Original Sampson Low Edition – Reduced from the Original Folio Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868. Slim-Quarto (17 cm x 25 cm). Volume I: XII, 80 plates / Volume II: [6], 80 plates. Both Volumes include the tissue-guards for protecting the plates and all corresponding explanatory text and Index is present. Hardcover / Original publisher’s half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. One of the earliest and rarest publications with chromolithographic botanical illustrations. Excellent condition besides some mild, faded dampstains to some plates. Important: These bindings are usually broken, which is NOT the case here. While the book came from the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), the book belonged to Henrietta L. Conner [Inscribed by Sophia Perry Hornik to Henrietta L. Conner in 1890].

93. 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).

94. Hutton, Mary A.

The Táin – An Irish Epic Told in English Verse by Mary A. Hutton.

Dublin, Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small Quarto (18 cm x 22 cm). XII, 495 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Top edge gilt. The Volume now in collector’s Mylar. Binding with some fraying and rubbing to spine. As usual, the text deckled edges with some foxing. Last page of the Appendix unopened with a small tear. A very rare and important book with all the History and insight into “The Táin”.

95. Beatty, Bertha (nee Creagh).

Kerry Memories. [together with a MLS manuscript letter signed by Maude Isabel Buxton, about the author Bertha Beatty – Letter on stationery of Tockenham Manor].

First Edition. Dawlish (Devon), The Channing Press, 1939. Small Octavo. 59 pages. Hardcover / Private green cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

96. O’Kane, Finola.

Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland – Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives.

Cork, Cork University Press, 2004. Quarto. XI, 211 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

97. Smith, Charlotte.

Desmond – A Novel in Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W. McKenzie, H.Colbert, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1792. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). VII, 276, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

98. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !

99. Smith, Charlotte.

Montalbert – A Novel.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1795. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 270, 276 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

100. Kotzebue, August von / [Plumptre, Anne].

The Constant Lover; Or, William and Jeanette: A Tale. From the German of Augustus von Kotzebue. To which is prefixed “An Account of the Literary Life of the Author” [with the printed dedication by Kotzebue to his friend Charles Georg Graumann] / Also included (separately bound): “Pizarro – The Spaniards in Peru; or, The Death of Rolla. A Tragedy, in Five Acts:. The original of the play, Performing at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, under the title of PIZARRO. Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre – Translator of Kotzebue’s “Virgin of the Sun”, &c.

First Edition. Three Volumes in one Solander Box. Dublin, Printed by William Porter / Printed for J. Moore, 1799. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Pagination of the two Volume-Set: “The Constant Lover / Account of the Literary Life of Kotzebue”: Volume I: XIV, 203 pages / Volume II: 216 pages / Pagination for the accompanying Volume: “Pizarro”: 102 pages. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. All three Volumes housed in a bespoke built Solander Box (see plenty of images on our website). Excellent condition. From the library of Susannah Townsend-Meade (Ballymartle), with her name to titlepage. The accompanying Volume bears the name of one Mary Johnston. The “Constant Lover”, with the “Account of Kotzebue’s Life” is a very scarce publication !