131. [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.

132. Greene, Jack. Massignani, Alessandro.

Ironclads at War – The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship 1854-1891.

Pennsylvania, Combined Publishing, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. 423 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

133. Greenwood, James [Harry McCalmont / Hugh McCausland].

Fair Phyllis of Lavender Wharf – A Realistic Romance in Ten Thrills.

Bristol / London, J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, No Date (c.1890) 10cm x 16.5 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover. Very Rare Book ! Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discoloration and minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owners name in pencil on endpaper and bookplate of Harry McCalmont with his family crest on pastedown. Speckled decorative edges. Bottom of spine entirely detached and top of spine partially detached. [Number 39 in Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library Series].

134. [Hedouin, Edmond / Boilvin, Emile] Book of Wisdom.

The Song of Songs [The Song of Solomon / Das Hohelied Salomos]. With 26 etchings from designs by Edmond Hedouin and Emile Boilvin. From Designs by BIDA.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. 25 cm x 32 cm. 47 pages of verses juxtaposed to 24 fine etchings, the additional two etchings are the frontispiece and a smaller signet etching to the titlepage. All of the fine etchings mounted to stiff paper. Original hardcover / Decorative quarter morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very few of the etchings with foxing. Very good condition of this extremely rare edition (no.129 of 250 copies only) with only very minor signs of external wear / some rubbing to the binding and bumping to the corners. Some corners very slightly fingerstained and with a hint of a faded dampstain. Name of former owner on endpaper: “Martin F. Jackson – 501 – 5 ave. New York City”.

135. Heininger, C.P. (Publisher).

Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, California – with Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay Islands, Stock Exchange etc. [Two Binding – Variations of the Fantastic original Tourist – Panorama of San Francisco / 12 years before the earthquake destroyed most of the buildings displayed in this Leporello / The Souvenir shows also a remarkable Birds Eye View of San Francisco ].

2 volumes ( 2 different editions of the same publications.) San Francisco, C.P. Heininger, 1889 / (ca.1898). 14.5 cm x 19 cm. 44 pages with illustrations (including bird’s eye view of San Francisco), 60-page-booklet with descriptions tipped into rear of the Leporello (the booklet cleanly detached but complete). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover Leporello / Accordion / Concertina – tourist publication with blindstamped emblemata “Eureka” to the rear board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear for the later edition. The Leporellos both in unusually, excellent condition. No fraying to the folds of the Leporellos. Binding of the 1889 edition is poorer, The Leporello and the booklet of this version are completely detached. A few tears and damages between the folds. Both interior of booklets are very clean. Overall very good condition and all illustrations are superfresh! Extremely scarce.

136. Heininger, C.P. (Publisher).

Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, California – with Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay Islands etc. [Fantastic Panorma of San Francisco 12 years before the earthquake destroyed most of the buildings displayed in this Leporello / The Souvenir shows also a remarkable Birds Eye View of San Francisco ].

San Francisco, C.P. Heininger, ca.1894-1898 14.5 cm x 19 cm. 24 pages of illustrated Leporello and 30 pages of the booklet Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover Leporello / Accordian / Concertina – tourist publication with blindstamped emblemata “Eureka” to the rear board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tears around stapes on the booklet but it is still attached to the rear board. Minor stains and rubbing on the rear board.

137. Henchion, R.

Henchion’s Cork Centenary Remembrancer 1887 – 1987. A digest of much that was lurid and languid, laughable and lamentable in the City and County of Cork in 1887.

Cork, Dahadore Publications. 1986. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. X, 194 pages including several photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

138. 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’.

139. Hermand, Jost (Editor) / Gilbert, Michael (Editor).

German Essays on Music.

New York, The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994. 14 cm x 21 cm. XXI, 310 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [The German Library: Volume 43.]

140. Hillsborough, Romulus.

Shinsengumi – The Shogun’s Last Samurai Corps.

Tokyo, Rutland (Vermont), Singapore, Tuttle Publishing, 2005. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XXV, 230 pages. Illustrated with four black-and-white photographs and four maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket illustrated with photograph of miniature Shinsengumi Banner. Cover image of Samurai courtesy of Masataka Kojima. Cover design by Horuga Yakobusu. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.