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Literature European18193. France, Anatole: The Gods Are Athirst. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1929. Library Edition The Works of Anatole France in English. First edition thus. (6) + 285 + (2) pp. 24.5 x 16 cm. 12 coloured plates by John Austin and further decorations in the text. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition. No dw. A very attractive book. £17.5015623. Amiel, H. F.: Philine. London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1933. With an introduction by D.L. Murray. 374 pp. 20 x 13.5 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards. No dustwraper. Slight foxing to endpapers and fore-edge of print block, o/w In good condition. £10.0015997. Balzac, Honore de: Modeste Mignon. London: J.M. Dent, 1896. xi+293 pp. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Preface de George Saintsbury. Tissue guarded frontispiece etching, and two others by D. Murray-Smith. Text in English, translated by Clara Bell. Spine faded, rubbed spine extremities, former owner's name on title page, otherwise in fair/good condition. £10.0018580. Becquer, Gustavo Adolphus: Rimas. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1963. Clasicos Castellanos. cxix + 148 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Introduccion y notas de Jodse Pedro Diaz. Printed matt card covers. In very good condition. Poems by Becquer, born 1836 in Seville, and who died 1870 in Madrid: a noted Spanish poet, writer, playwright and literary columnist.. £12.0015980. Blok, Aleksandr: Selected Poems of Aleksandr Blok. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. vii+186 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Glazed card covers. Former owner's signature on ffep, o/w In good condition. £10.006461. Bourget, Paul: Cosmopolis. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1893. Text in French. iv+471pp. illustrres d'Aquarelles par Duez, Jeanniot et Myrbach. Edgewear to boards and some rubbing otherwise good. Well illustrated including some tissue guarded colour illustrations. Real fin de siecle stuff. Bourget 1852-1935 was poet, essayist and novelist in the front rank of late 19th century French novelists. £45.0015628. Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth: Essays on German Literature. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition. 359 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Essays on Goethe, Schiller, the German Novel and The Romantic School in Germany. Gold-blocked red boards. No dustwrapper. Overall in good condition. £12.0019300. Champion, Pierre: La Galerie des Rois Histoire de France Des Origines a la mort de Henri IV (481-1610) Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1934. Sixth edition. 373 pp. 21 x 13.5 cm. Half leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and original gold-blocked red spine label, Marbled endpapers. Minor wear, otherwise good. £15.0015577. Costa, Francisco: A Garca E A Serpente Romance. Lisboa: Parceria A. M. Pereira, 1945. Segunda edicao. 418pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Partially un-opened. Card wrappers. In good condition. £18.0020153. Cronin, A.J.: A Cidadella ( O Romance de um Medico) Rio De Janeiro: Editions Jose Olympio 2nd ed. 1939. A Spanish language edition of The Citadel by A.J. Cronin. 405 pp. a little wear otherwise fair/good condition. Translated by Genolino Amado. £10.0015970. Daudet, Alphonse: Recollections of a Literary Man. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889. vi+268 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by Laura Ensor, and illustrated by Bieler, Montegut, Myrbach, and Rossi. T.e.g. Charming b&w illustrations. Half-leather and green cloth binding, gilt title and decoration, no dustwrapper. Some wear and rubbing to boards. but otherwise in good condition. £15.0015660. De Balzac, Honore: The Magic Skin. London: The Caxton Publishing Company Limited, 1899. The Caxton Edition. 393 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Text in English. Illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards, no dustwrapper. T.e.g. Boards a little rubbed. Minor wear, otherwise good. £10.0015659. De Balzac, Honore: The Village Cure. London: The Caxton Publishing Company Limited, 1899. The Caxton Edition. 371 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Text in English. Illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards, no dustwrapper. T.e.g. Spine lettering is sunfaded, otherwise good. £10.0017655. De Musset, Alfred: Lui et Elle Paris: Charpentier Libraire-Editeur, 1862. 238 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Half leather and marbled boards, with matching marbled foreedges and endpapers. Gilt-decorated spine with original spine label. There is edge rubbing, and corners bumped, otherwise in fair/ good condition. A response to George Sand's novel, Elle et Lui. We have a matching edition of Sand's Elle et Lui, our reference 17699. £35.0017654. De Musset, Alfred: Premieres Poesies de Alfred de Musset. Paris: Charpentier Libraire-Editeur, 1863, 1864. 18 x 11.5 cm. Two Volumes in a uniform binding as a set. Volume I, 1829 -1835, 356 pp. Volume II, 1836-52, 283 pp. Half red leather and marbled boards, and matching marbled foreedges and endpapers. Gilt decorated spine with original gold-blocked spine labels. Some edge rubbing, and a small area of marbled paper is missing at the bottom edge of the front board of volume II. A very attractive set, in fair/good condition, £30.0017597. de Queiroz, Eca: The Mandarin and other Stories. London: The Bodley Head, 1966. First British edition. 186 pp. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated by Richard Franko Goldman. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. The finest novella of Portugal's great nineteenth-century author Eca de Queiroz £20.0018224. De Saint-Pierre, Bernardin: Paul et Virginie suive de La Chaumiere Indienne. Paris: Garnier Freres nouvelle edition1878. 18 x 12 cm. xxxiv+324 pp. illustrations d'apres les dessins de Bertall et Demarle. Leather spine and marbled boards, six panelled spine with raised bands, original spine label, marbled foreedges and endpapers, very minor wear, a good tight clean copy in very good condition. £25.0015796. de Vigny, Count Alfred: Cinq-Mars or A Conspiracy under Louis XIII. An Historical Romance. London: David Bogue, 1847. vii+397 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Frontispiece engraving, embossed boards, gilt spine title, a little rubbing to boards and the front joint tender, otherwise fair/good. £10.0011494. De Vigny, Le Cte. Alfred: Cinq-Mars ou une conjuration sous Louis XIII. Paris: Michel Levy Vingtieme edition 1873. Precedee de reflections sur la verite dans l'art, accompangee de documents historique. 494 pp. two folded reproduction documents. full leather binding, dark blue, six panelled spine with raised bands and decorative gilt panels, gilt border around boards with gilt school crest, motto, "Deo Juvenante" and Schola Regia Brvtonensis to front board, marbled endpapers and foreedges, internally bright tight and clean, some edge rubbing to boards and spine a little faded otherwise a very good copy. Kings School Bruton Somerset founded 1519. £35.0018537. Dinis, Julio: Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca Cronica da Aldeia. Porto: Livraria Civilizacao-Editora, 1951 Nova edicao, conforme a primeira, actualizada na grafia e revisita por Vasco Rodrigues. 408 pp. 19.5 x 14 cm. Printed card covers, in good condition. Charming manuscript dedication on half title. £12.009016. Don Jose de Castro y Serrano: La Novela Del Egipto Viaje Imaginario a la Apertura del Canal de Suez en seis jordanas. Madrid: T. Fortanent 1870. 367 pp. half leather and cloth boards, five panelled spine with gilt title and some relatively crude gilt decoration, boards rubbed, scuffing to top and bottom of spine, otherwise in good condition. The novel of Egypt, imaginary travels to the opening of theSuez Canal, in six days. A topical work on a subject of interest, the opening of the canal in 1869. Spanish text of course. £55.0012019. Dumas, Alexandre: Lever, Charles: James, G.P.R: Twenty Years After or The Further Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer being a sequel to The Three Guardsmen:The Fortunes of Glencore: A Life of Vicissitudes A Story of Revolutionary Times. Ney York: H. Long & Brother 1850. New York: Harper & Brothers 1857: New York: Harper & Brothers 1857 Three novels bound into one volume. All US printings. 280+vi+180pp+93 pp. This is the first US edition of Lever's Fortunes of Glencore, and early editions of the others. £85.0017658. Ebers, George: Eine Frage Idyll zu einem Gemalde feines freundes Alma Tadema. Stuttgart und Leipzig: Eduard Hallberger, 1881. First edition. 134 pp. 17.5 x 13 cm. The story is based on the painting by Alma Tadema which forms the frontispiece. In a very decorative binding with gilt blocking, ruling, geometrical and floral designs, and small vignettes in red, gold, black, and white on green cloth boards. All edges gilt. Moire silk endpapers. The tissue guard for the frontispiece is damaged, and foxed. The print is lightly foxed, and there is a smallish hole on the half title page. There is a dedication inscription, dated 4 April 1882, on the ffep. Despite these internal imperfections this is a good example of a lovely period binding. £15.0017718. Fedin, Konstantin: Early Joys. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1950. 658 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards, no dw. Slightly-bruised corners, and "Russia To Day Book Club" stamp on title page, otherwise good. This novel won the Stalin Prize in 1948. £10.0015764. Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe: Reflections sur la Rhetorique et sur la Poetique Dialogues sur L'Eloquence. Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1730. Nouvelle edition augmentee de diverses pieces. 360 pp. 16.5 x 10 cm. Contemporary calf binding. six panelled spine with raised bands and gilt decorative panels, original spine label, and contemporary marbled endpapers. Some old scuffing and wear to the boards. A little fading to the gilt on the spine, and a second spine label missing. Internally there are some old faint water marks to margins of some pages, a bookplate has been carefully removed from the front pastedown, leaving a shadow of its presence, but overall a tight copy in fair/good condition. £35.0013999. Flaubert, Gustav: Three Tales. London: Chatto & Windus 1923. Translated by Arthur McDowall and illustrated by Robert Diaz de Soria. 25 by 17cms. 117 pp. illustrated, 12 tissue guarded mounted colour plates, hardback, with green linen spine and blue green textured coth boards. spine a little faded, a little wear otherwise in good condition. £25.0015621. Flaubert, Gustave: Bouvard and Pecuchet. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition thus. 348 pp. 20.5 by 14.cms. Translated by T.W. Earp and G.W. Stonier. Blue-blocked red boards. No dustwraper. Ffep gone and spine sunfaded. Otherwise-blank preliminary page inscribed Allan Seaton (Irish poet and artist). Occasional foxing. £10.009150. Ford, J. D. M.: Selections from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Boston: D.C. Heath & Co. 1908. edited with notes and vocabulary by Ford. ix+198 pp. hardback, in very good condition. " this little volume has been prepared as an introduction to the study of the great Spanish classic. £8.0015910. Fournier, Alain: Le Grand Meaulnes. Paris: Bibliotheque Rouge et Or, 1952. 222 pp. 21 x 15 cm. A classic novel, in French. Illustrations by Claude Delaunay. The coloured illustrations are very appealing, as are the illuminated letters and the tail-pieces. Gold- and red-blocked white boards, in a worn dustwrapper. £10.0019305. France, Anatole: Crainquebille Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres recits profitables. Paris: Calman-Levy, 1926. 315 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Austen and Janet Boyd on front pastedown. In very good condition. £12.0020267. France, Anatole: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard Membre de l'Institute. Paris: Calman-Levy 1921. 323 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. Some wear, but overall in good condition. £12.0019308. France, Anatole: Le Lys Rouge Paris: Calman-Levy, 1932. 19349409 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. £12.0019307. France, Anatole: Le Petit Pierre Paris: Calman-Levy, 1928. 302 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. £12.0019344. France, Anatole: Pierre Noziere. Paris: Calman-Levy 1927. 326 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. Some wear, but overall in good condition. £12.0017602. Garrett, Almeida: Viagens na Minha Terra. Lisboa: Livraria sa da Costa Editora, 1966. xxxv + 332 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. com prefacio e notas do Prof. Jose Pereira Tavares. Frontispiece. Matt neutral card covers, printed brown and black. Small old corner crease to front cover, otherwise in very good condition. £20.0014291. Gautier, Theophile: Oeuvres de Theophile Gautier Poesies, Emaux et Camees, Theatre en Vers. Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1943. 353 pp. 16 x 10 cm. Half leather and marbled boards, six panelled spine with raised bands, gilt titling and decorative panels, t.e.g. marbled endpapers, spine a little rubbed and worn otherwise good. A very old fashioned binding for this date. £30.0017517. Gebler, Carlo: 10 Rounds An adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. Belfast: Lagan Press, 2002. 81 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Signed by the author on the title page. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. Gebler was born in Dublin in 1954, and lives in Fermanagh. £20.0018808. Genet, Jean: Miracle of the Rose. London: Anthony Blond, 1965. 241 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Translated by Bernard Frectman and published by Anthony Blond as the first English edition. Gold-blocked green boards, very good, in a v.g. dustwrapper. £15.0015617. Gobineau, Le Comte de: The Crimson Handkerchief and other stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. The Traveller's Library. 221 pp. 17.5 x 12 cm. Translated from the French by Henry Longan Stuart. The other stories are "A Daughter of Priam" and "The Caribou Hunt." Gold-blocked blue boards, in a somewhat worn dustwrapper. £10.0015833. Green, Elmar (Alexander Vasilyevich Yakimov): Wind From the South A Novel. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1950. 292 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Frontispiece photograph of the author. This novel was written in 1946, and won a Stalin Prize. Gold- and white-blocked blue boards, in a rather edgeworn dustwrapper. £10.0012438. Guizot, Pauline Mme: Nouveaux Contes. Paris: Chez Bechet Aine Libraire-Editeur Quai des Augustins No 57, 1823 Second volume only of two volume set. Auteur des Contes intitules, Les Enfans, et de Raoul et Victor, ou l'Ecolier, ouvrage auquel l'Academie francaise a decerne, en 1822, le prix fonde pour l'ouvrage litteraire le plus utile aux moeurs. Tome Second. 354 pp. 3 tissue guarded engraved plates, half leather and marbled boards, six panelled spine with raised bands, blind stamped and gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, and fore edges. The ffep has a small stamp of a shield with coronet above, L within, and "Louth" below. the crest stamp is that Randal Plunkett, Viscount Louth 1832-68 the 13th Lord Louth. Contents include, Le Cure de Chavignat, Les Querelles, L'Absence, Le Raccommodement, La Princesse, De la Vie de Nadir Le Desert, Suite du Pauvre Jose, Nanette suite de la Voiture versee, Scaramouche. Internally two pages have a tear, no loss and repairable, there is a very old lightish ink stain affecting part of five pages and some pages of foreedge, otherwise very good. Text in French of course. £35.0015966. Heine, H.: Heine in Art and Letters. London: Walter Scott, c1905 The Scott Library. 17.5 x 12 cm. xv+250+22 pp. Translated with a prefatory note by Elizabeth A. Sharp. Gold-blocked darkgreen boards with gilt titling and decoration. Browned eps, o/w In very good condition. £10.0012335. La Motte Fouque, Frederic Baron de: Violina: A Miniature Romance. London: H.G.Clarke and Co 1845. 13.5 by 9.5 cms. 134 pp. translated from the German. In contemporary polished calf boards, with the bookplate of Thomas Phillip Earl de Grey Wrest Park. The boards are fairly worn but restored with a new spine label, internally tight, clean and fresh. The author is Baron Friedrich Heinrich Carl de La Motte Fouque. Copac lists only 1 copy in the BL. £65.0016230. Lagerlof, Selma: Marbacka. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. vii + 288 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Short stories about a country estate, translated by Velma Swanson Howard. Gold-blocked black boards. No dw. Neat dedication on back of ffep. Few marks on boards, o/w in good condition. £18.0015984. Le Gallienne, Richard: From A Paris Garret. London: The Richards Press Ltd, 1948. Fourth printing. xi+291 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. Introduction by Grant Richards and eight plates in colour by Barday. Gold-blocked blue boards, in a slightly worn and dusty dustwrapper, otherwise good. The plates are most attractive. £15.0018225. Le Sage: Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane. Paris: Charpentier, 1861. xx + 752 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Half leather and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, original spine label, and marbled foreedges and endpapers. Neat signature on half-title. Spine rubbed, and minor wear, but a good tight copy. This is the edition with Notes and Preface by M. Saint-Marc Gibardin. £20.00242. Le Sage: Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1844 686 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Portrait frontispiece. Full red-leather binding, gold ruling and blind-blocked borders, with an inner stylised border. The inner boards - round the pastedowns - are also richly decorated. Five-compartmented spine with gold and blind-blocked decoration. A.e.g. The book was "Bound by W. Clark, Bookseller & Stationer Dunfermline". Beautifully-written dedication, in French, on otherwise blank preliminary. £35.0011533. Le Sage, Alain-Rene: Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Londres: Chez J. Nourse Libraire du Roi Nouvelle edition revue et corrigee 1769. Twelve books published in four volumes. 14 by 9 cms. Vol. I, 315 pp. 8 eng. plates, Vol. II, 273 pp. 8 eng. copper plates, Vol. III, 304 pp. 8 eng. plates, Vol. IV, 297 pp. 8 eng. plates. Three vols each have a one page list of books published by this publisher. A pencilled owner's name, Christopher Haliday Sept. 1770. Bound in contemporary polished calf, five panelled spine, with raised bands, gilt ruling and volume number, no spine labels. some age wear and rubbing, internally tight bright and clean, delightful illustrations, Showing its 230 years relatively lightly, a nice little set. Le Sage, 1668-1747, wrote this novel between 1715-1735, and its first English edition was published in 1747. £125.0019303. Legrand, Theodoric: Histoire du Portugal. Paris: Payot, 1928. 175 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Gold-blocked green boards. Bookplate of Austen and Janet Boyd on front pastedown. in very good condition. £12.0019340. Lenotre, G: Paris Revolutionaire Vielles Maisons, Vieux Papiers. Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1922, 1923. In 4 volumes. Vol. I, 362 pp. Vol II, 384 pp. Vol. III, 399 pp. Vol. IV, 391pp. Many illustrations. Half-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spines Gold-blocked titles. Marbled endpapers. Showing wear. Overall, in only fair condition. Bookplates on front pastedowns for Austen and Janet Boyd. £20.0017719. Londonderry, The Marchioness of: Henry Chaplin A Memoir. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. First edition. 658 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards, no dw. Slightly-bruised corners, and "Russia To Day Book Club" stamp on title page, otherwise good. This novel won the Stalin Prize in 1948. £24.0017603. Lorca, Federico Garcia: Libro de Poemas Primeras Canciones Canciones Seis Poemas Galegos. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1951 Sixth edition of volume 2 of Lorca's collected works. Four earlier volumes here brought together. 231 pp. 20.5 x 15 cms. Matt thin neutral card covers, printed blue and black. Minor shelfwear. Lower spine extremity is missing 3 cm. Internally in very good condition. One of the great writers of the twentieth century. Text in Spanish. £12.0014247. Loti, Pierre: Figures et Chose qui Passaient. Paris: Calman, Levy douzieme edition 1898. 18 by 12 cms. 333 pp. half leather and blue boards, decorative endpapers, gilt borders to leather. Spine sunned, very minor wear owner's inscription on ffep, otherwise good. £15.0019306. Loti, Pierre: Le Livre de la Pitie et de la Mort. Paris: Calman-Levy, 1919. 320 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Austen and Janet Boyd on front pastedown. In very good condition. £12.0015958. Loti, Pierre: Madame Prune. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1926. Translated from the French by S.R.C. Plimsoll. 240 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Eight illustrations in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Charming illustrations. Hardcovers, no dustwrapper. Decorative front board and spine, with gilt titling. In good condition. £15.0015686. Loti, Pierre: Mon Frere Yves. Paris: Calmann-Levy. 1902?. 395 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked green boards. No dustwrapper. Decorative endpapers. Feps are browned, o/w in good condition. Text in French. £10.003707. Louys, Pierre: Aphrodite moeurs antiques. Paris, Le Livre de Demain, Librarie Artheme Fayard 1947. 23.5 by 19 cms. 126 pp.36 woodcuts by Morin-Jean. paper covers partly uncut. good. £8.00244. Louys, Pierre.: The Songs of Bilitis, translated from the Greek. London: The Fortune Press, c1926 163 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. This edition printed by the Whitefriars press, 925 copies on Kelmscott hand made paper numbered 76-1000 of which this is no 105. v.g. Includes Pamphylian Bucolics, Mitilenian Elegies and Epigrams on the island of Cyprus. This translation into English is offered to one unnamed by the nameless. £35.0015709. MacKenzie, K. R. H., translator: Master Tyll Owlglass His Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits. London: George Routledge & Sons, c1900. Broadway Translations. xxxv+319 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Illustrated. Introduction and Appendices. Black-blocked brown boards. No dustwrapper. Signature of Allan Seaton, Irish poet and artist, of ffep. In good condition. £10.0015960. Maeterlinck, Maurice: Theatre. Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1929. Tome Deuxieme. 314 pp. 19 x 12 cm. Includes Pelleas et Melisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), Interieur (1894), and La Mort de Tintagiles (1894). Thin card covers. The bottom half inch of the spine is missing, but overall in fair condition. £10.002189. Markham, Sir Clements, translator: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes His Fortunes and Adversities. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. xxxvi+105pp. 23 x 15 cm. Translated from the edition of 1554 printed at Burgos, with a short notice of the Mendoza family, a short life of the author, Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, and a notice of the work and some remarks on the character of Lazarillo de Tormes. Illustrated with 12 plates by Stephen Baghot de la Bere, 1877-1927, a figure and landscape painter he was an occasional illustrator capable, as here, of very fine pen and ink work. Sketch map. Spine faded and professionally relaid, otherwise good. £15.0019302. Marquise de La Tour Du Pin: Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans 1778 - 1815. Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1930. Deux Tomes. Publie par son arriere-petit-fils le Colonel Comte Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort. Tome I, xxxii + 405 pp. Tome II, 391 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. Half-leather and marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands and original gold-blocked titles. Marbled endpapers. Bookplates for Austen and Janet Boyd on front pastedowns. Minor wear, otherwise good. A handsome set. £30.0019341. Maurois, Andre: Lyautey. Paris: Les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, 1931. 351 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Half-leather and marbled boards. Six-panelled spine. Gold-blocked title. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Austen and Janet Boyd. Front inner gutter splitting, o/w In good condition. £10.0015637. Merwin, W. S.: Some Spanish Ballads. London New York Toronto: Abelard-Schuman, 1961. 127 pp. 22.5 x 13 cm. Text in English. Woodcut decorations. Gold-blocked cream boards, in a very good dustwrapper. In very god condition. £10.0014661. Mistral, Frederic: Oeuvres de Frederic Mistral les Isles D'Or Texte et Traduction 1943. Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre 1943. 16 by 9.5 cms. 541 pp. softcovers, the covers are a bit dusty but otherwise in good condition. £10.0019196. Moliere: Oeuvres Complete de Moliere. Oxford: A L'Impimerie de L'Universitie, 1900. 647 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Full red Morocco binding, six panelled spine with raised bands, gilt decorative panels and original spine label, gilt lining to board edges, and a gilt cartouche for Campbell College, Belfast. Marbled foreedges and endpapers. Text in French of course. A very handsome copy, in very good condition. £55.0015251. Moliere: Oeuvres Completes de Moliere. Oxford: University Press, 1900. viii+647pp. 18.5 x 13 cm. Half leather and cloth binding. Six panelled spine with raised bands. Highly decorative gilt panels and original red spine label with gilt titling. The front board bears the gilt crest of the Commercial Travellers' Schools. Marbled endpapers and foreedges. Small scuffs to rear spine edge, otherwise in good condition. £25.0011923. Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat Baron de: Oeuvres de Montesquieu. Paris: Chez Jean-Francois Bastien 1788. Nouvelle Edition Plus correcte et plus complete que toutes les precedentes. Five volumes complete. Vol I, cxl+438 pp. frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, Europe and the World, Vol II, xvi+574pp. Vol III, viii+509pp. Vol IV, 494pp. Vol V. vi+531pp. Half calf and marbled boards, some wear and rubbing to boards, the upper spine extremity of Vol. V has lost a little leather along the gutter, internally very tight, clean, bright. Despite a bit of external wear this makes a very nice set. £450.0014719. Morley, Henry editor: The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne. London: George Routledge 1893. Translated by John Florio. Edited with an introduction and a glossary by Henry Morley. xxxii+598 pp. Hardback, spine extremities rubbed and spine a little sunfaded otherwise a good copy. £20.0019301. Neumann, Alfred: Le Roman d'un Coup D'Etat La Jeunesse de Napoleon 111 Paris: Librairie Stock, 1935. 421 pp. 20 x 13 cm. Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and original gold-blocked red spine label. Marbled endpapers. Minor wear, otherwise good. £15.0017596. Nobre, Antonio: So'. Porto: Livraria Tavares Martins, 1971. 219 pp. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Several fascimiles of pages from the poet's notebooks are bound in, but are not included in the pagination. Index. Matt neutral card covers, printed red and black. The covers are very slightly discoloured, otherwise in very good condition. Poems by this nineteenth- century Portuguese poet. £20.0015992. Obruchev, Vladimir: Slannikov Land. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955. Soviet Literature for Young People Series. 371 pp. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Translated from the Russian by David Svirsky. Illustrated by Y. Krasny. Black-blocked yellow boards, very good, but no dustwrapper. £15.0014660. Ouida: Street Dust and Other Stories. Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1901. 16 by 11.5 cms 264 pp. blue boards, a little faded otherwise good. £12.0014000. Peers, E. Allison: Blanquerna: A Thirteenth Century Romance. Translated from the Catalan of Ramon Lull. London: Jarrolds n.d. (1925) 26 by 16.5 cms. 536 pp. hardback, cream linen spine and marbled boards, minor wear, some light foreedge spotting otherwise good. No dustwrapper. £42.0015690. Pollen, John, translator.: Russian Songs and Lyrics. Being faithful translations of selections from some of the best Russianm poets- Pushkin, Lermontof, Nadson, Nekrasov, Tolstoi, Tyoutchev, Maikov, Lebedev, Fet, etc London: East and West, Ltd, 1916 xii+190 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. There is an insert on the title page: "The translator is devotng any profits to funds for the benefit of the Russian Soldiers". It may be signed by the author on the title page, the surname is unclear. Signature of Allan Seaton, Irish artist and poet, on ffep.Gray boards, with green backstrip. Corners worn. No dustwrapper. An interesting World War One item. £25.0017646. Prevost, L'Abbe: Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux. Paris: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs, 1860. Nouvelle Edition collationnee avec le plus grand soin sur l'edition publiee a Amsterdam en 1753. precedee d'une notice historique sur l'Abbe Prevost par Jules Janin. xxiv + 288 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Half leather and marbled boards, with matching marbled endpapers and page-block edges. Decorative gilt spine, with original gold-blocked title label. Boards are a bit edge rubbed, and previous owner's name on otherwise blank preliminary, but overall in good condition. £35.0015254. Racine, Jean: Oeuvres de Jean Racine precedees des memoires sur la vie par Louis Racine. Paris: Chez Firmin Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1862. 656 pp. 26.5 x 18 cm. Frontispiece portrait, and a pictorial vignette to the title page. Full green calf binding, six panelled spine with raised bands and decorative gilt panels, original red spine label and gilt titling. Gilt ruling to edge of boards, marbled endpapers and decorated foreedges. Internally tight and bright, other than some fairly light browning to preliminaries. There is some slight rubbing/shelfwear to the spine edges and to the upper spine extremity. Overall a handsome book in very good condition. £50.0019178. Racine, Jean: Oeuvres de Jean Racine, de L'Acadamie Francoise. Paris: par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1779. Nouvelle edition avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. In three volumes. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Tome Premier, xxxv + 362 pp, 6 engraved plates, including a frontispiece; Tome Seconde, 362 pp, 5 engraved plates; Tome Troisieme, 326 pp, 2 engraved plates. Decorative tail pieces in each volume. Full leather bindings with six panelled spines, with original spine labels, gilt lining round the edged of the boards and to spine though the gilding on the spines is now faded. Marbled endpapers. Internally tight and bright. No marking or foxing. Some minor shelfwear given their age, but a really quite handsome set with high quality plates. Works include: La Thebade, Alexandre le Grand, Andromaque, Les Plaideurs, Brittanicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, Iphigenie, Phedre, Esther, Athalie, Oeuvres diverses en vers et en prose. £165.009973. Raspe, Rudolf Erich: The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. (Exceeding all other Travellers!!!) Also an Account of A Voyage into the Moon and Dog Star. London: Printed for and sold by T. Hughes, Ludgate Street, and J. Bysh, Paternoster Row A New and Complete Edition 1826. 20 by 11.5 cms. iv+70+iv+61 pp. coloured frontispiece on the first title page, there was a folding coloured plate facing the title page half of which is missing. In original boards, some edge rubbing, the bottom inch of the spine label is missing, internally clean and tight. The two parts were first published in 1786 and 1792 and this is a good example of an early nineteenth century copy of this popular book. £50.0015826. Resnick, Seymour and Jeanne Pasmantier, editors.: An Anthology of Spanish Literature. London: John Calder, 1958 First edition. xxv+608 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards, no dustwrapper. Slight browning of end-papers, o/w in good condition £12.0014837. Riedl, Frederick: A History of Hungarian Literature. London: William Heinemann 1906. One of the publisher's series, Short Histories of the Literature of the World, edited by Edmund Gosse. vii+293 pp. hardback, minor spotting to endpapers otherwise in good condition. £12.0015670. Risse, Heinz: The Earthquake. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. 254 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Translated by Rita Eldon. Silver-blocked green boards, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. Previous owner's name neatly written on ffep, o/w good. £10.0015971. Rolland, Romain: John Christopher Dawn and Morning. London: William Heinemann, 1910. 285 pp. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Translated from the French by Gilbert Cannan. Black- and gold-blocked red boards, no dustwrapper. Some browning and spotting. £10.0011490. Ronna, A: Teatro Scelto Italiano, Commedie, Drammi, Tragedie. Parigi: Carlo Hingray Libraio 1837. 21.5 by 13 cms. 504 pp. Half leather and marbled boards, six panelled spine with raised bands with blind and gilt stamped decoration, marbled endpapers and foreedges, internally tight, some old annotation mostly pencil from someone translating, and fairly extensive brown spotting/foxing. A handsome binding in a mid-green leather. Plays include, "Il Burbero benefico", di C. Goldoni, "La Tarantola", di Albergati Capacelli, "Olivo e Pasquale", di A Sografi, "La Famiglia dell' uomo indolente", di G-G de Rossi, "Le Gelosie per Equivoca", di G. Giraud, "La Fiera", di A. Nota, "Themistocle", di P. Metastasio, "Oreste", di V. Alfieri, "Aristodemo", di V. Monti, "Il Contre di Carmagnola", di A. Manzoni and, "Giovanni da Procida", di G-B Niccolini. £35.0014629. Roscoe, Thomas: The Italian Novelists. London: Frederick Warne nd Co, c1900. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notices by Thomas Roscoe. xx+619 pp. Novelle Antiche, Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Fiorentino, SalernitanoSabadino degli Arienti, Da Porto, Illicini, Sozzini, Machiavelli, Firenzuola, Fortini, Sermini, Brevio, Grazzini, etc etc. B lack boards, a litte faded, original spine label a little rubbed, otherwise good. £15.0014762. Saint-Yves, Leonard de: Selected Writings of De Sade. London: Peter Owen Limited, 1953. "This second edition is limited to 1000 copies". 306 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. A work of reference with extracts both from famous and less well known works. Gold-and-red-blocked blue boards, in a price-clipped worn dustwrapper. £20.00964. Saintaine, M: La Belle Cordierie and her three lovers London 1864 275pp. Original boards quarter leather. In fine condition. Saintaine 1798 - 1865 was the author of many plays, poems and stories. £15.0015713. Saintsbury, George, editor: Marmontel's Moral Tales. London: George Allen, 1895. xxxix+423 pp. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Selected with a revised translation biographical introduction and notes by George Saintsbury, with (eighteen) illustrations by Chris Hammond. Black-blocked front board and gold-blocked spine. No dustwrapper. In good condition. £10.0014248. Samain, Albert: Aux Flancs du Vase suivi de Polypheme et es Poemes inacheves. Paris: Societe dv Mercvre de France, 1908. 18 by 11.5 cms. 187 pp. half leather and marbled boards, gilt spine titling, marbled endpapers, some foreedge spotting and some light tanning to pages otherwise good. £15.0017699. Sand, George: Elle et Lui. Paris: Libraire de L. Hachette, 1860. Deuxieme edition. 311 pp. 18 x 11.5 cm. Half leather and marbled boards, with matching marbled foreedges and endpapers. Gilt-decorated spine, with original spine label. The front board is nearly detached, and there is edge rubbing, otherwise in fair condition. We have a matching edition of De Musset, Lui et Elle, our reference 17655. £15.0012108. Sand, George: The Mosaic Workers A Tale. To which is added The Orco A Tradition. London: H.G. Clarke and Co. 66 Old Bailey, 1844. The first English edition of this work. Translated from the French of George Sand by E. A. A. ( Elizabeth A. Ashurst. ) 13.5 x 9.5 cm. vii+190 pp. In contemporary polished calf, gilt ruling to boards and gilt decorative edge, six panelled spine with raised bands, gilt ruling, gilt motif in panels and original spine label. Some edge rubbing and wear rubbing to spine hinges, a small gouge in the leather on the lower part of the rear board. Internally very bright and clean. The front paste down has the very handsome bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, Wrest Park. The house is in Bedfordshire. Scarce. £250.0015654. Sandars, Mary F: Honore de Balzac His Life and Writings. London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1914. xxiv+312 pp. 20.5 by 14 cms. Nine illustrations. Index. Gold-blocked black boards. No dustwrapper. Occasional foxing, otherwise in good condition. £10.0017657. Schiller: Geschichte des Dreizigjahrigen Kriegs. Stuttgart: Cotta'scher Verlag, 1862. 518 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Half-leather binding, with marbled boards, and matching foreedges and endpapers. Gilt decorated spine. with original spine label. Minor shelfwear, otherwise in very good condition. £15.0015668. Smith, Alexander: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country. Edinburgh: N.R. Mitchell, 1881. xii+900 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Frontispiece portrait, tissue guarded. Brown-blocked front board and gold-blocked spine, no dustwrapper. Boards rubbed, and spine extremities worn. Only fair condition. £15.0017645. Tasso, Torquato: La Gerusalemme Liberata. Parigi (Paris) Presso G. C. Molini Libritio rue du Jardinet, 1783. Complete in two volumes. 17.5 x 10 cm. Volume I, xii + 326 pp. Engraved frontispiece and engraved decorative title page. Volume II, 333 pp. Engraved, tissue-guarded, title page. Italian text. In a handsome full red morocco with gilt decorative borders to board edges, a six panelled spine with gilt titling, lining, and decorations, blue silk endpapers, and all edges gilt. Corners bumped, and rubbing to lower spine extremities with minor loss to volume 2, but otherwise a very handsome set in very good condition. Both title pages have an old ink inscription "Mary Spottiswoode the gift of Mad Alec D'Orgeis Toulouse at the top of the page. Both volumess have the bookplate of D.D.A. Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology at Queen's University, Belfast. This was high quality French printing. £250.0014881. Trebutien, G. S. editor: Journal of Maurice de Guerin. London: Chatto & Windus 1891. With a Biographical and Literary Memoir by Sainte-Beuve. Translated from the Twentieth French edition by Jessie P Frothingham. 18 by 11.5 cms. 193 pp. hardback, the spine extremities are a bit rubbed and worn, and the last few pages have been carelessly trimmed by the binder, no loss of text, otherwise good. £15.0011508. Uhland, Ludwig: Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland. Stuttgart: 1875. xvi+491 pp. Full leather binding, red, six panelled spine with raised bands and decorative gilt panels, gilt pattern to board edges, gilt ruling around boards with gilt school crest, motto, "Deo Juvenante" and Schola Regia Brvtonensis to front board, marbled endpapers and fore edges, two areas of slight damage to the back board with some loss of leather, internally bright, tight and clean, a fair copy. Kings School Bruton Somerset founded 1519. Text in German, gothic script. £15.0018265. Voltaire: Oeuvres de M. De Voltaire. Amsterdam: Chez Etienne Ledet et Compagnie Revue corrigee & considerablement augmentee, avec des Figures en Taille-douce1738. Nouvellee edition. Tome Premier. xxxii + 349 pp. 22 x 14 cm. 11 engaved full-page illustrations. Vignette on the title page, decorative head and tail pieces. Vellum spine and marbled boards. There is heavy rubbing and wear to the marbled boards, a tiny inkstain on page 24, not affecting the text, and old light pencil annotation translating odd words,. Contents include four-page introduction, "Privilegie", in Dutch, Preface sur la Henriade, Traduction d'une Lettre de Mr Cocchi sur ce Poeme, Histoire Abregee de la Henriade, Ide'e de la Henriade, La Henriade, Essay sur le Poeme Epique. This was the first epic poem in French. Denied a Licence to publish in France Voltaire went to the Netherlands where the book was published in The Hague about 1723. The first French edition was in 1728. £150.0015967. Voltaire: Zadig, and Other Tales by Voltaire (1746-1767) A New Translation. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. viii + 475 + 24 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell. Gold-blocked red boards, no dw. Spine faded, o/w in good condition. £15.0019304. Wallersee-Wittelsbach, Comtesse Larish von: Les Secrets d'une Maison Royale. Paris: Payot, 1935. 303 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards. Bookplate for Austen and Janet Boyd on ffep. In very good condition. £20.0015806. William Reeves: The Best Terrible Tales From the Spanish. London: William Reeves, c1910 178 pp. 16.5 x 12 cm. Gold-blocked red boards. Some fairly minor foreedge spotting, and signature of Allan Seaton, Irish poet and artist, on ffep, otherwise fair/good. Scarce. £30.0013023. Zola, Emile: Rome. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. The first English edition. viii+587+32 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. Hardback, decorative spine and front board, decorative floral endpapers. The last 32 pages are the publisher's catalogue for March 1896. Showing a bit of wear. The top right corner of p.31 of the catalogue is torn off with minor loss, otherwise internally bright and clean. £23.00 |
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