ORLAN, PIERRE MAC

Les Clients du Bon Chien Jaune

Paris, Les Arts et le Livre, 1926. 25 cm, Different. (6),116,(4) pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Beautiful red morocco binding by Lisette Godart in Art Deco style with horizontal lines extending from the four raised bands across the boards. Some wear to binding with two scuff marks on the back. Gilt letters on spine. Marbled end papers. Top edge of pages gilt. Original covers bound in. Illustrated by Tcherkessoff. Contents with some foxing, otherwise still very good. Printed in a limited numbered edition, this is number 84. Beautifull Binding Beau Reliure.

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Book number: 9992

OVIDIUS NASO, P.

Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, en Latin et Francois divis?es en XV Livres ... de la traduction de Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer

Amsterdam, P. & J. Blaeu, 1702. 44 cm, Hardcover. [12]-574 pp. Engravings. Conditie: Good, P. & J. Blaeu, Janssons à Waesberge, Boom u. Goethals MDCCII (1702). 44,3 x 28 cm. Met gegraveerde Titelvignette van Martin Bouche en 70 kopergravures naar H. Abbe en A. Diepenbeke, door M. en P. Bouche, F. Bouttats en F. Clouwet. [12]-574 blz. Leren band met zeven ribben op rug, versieringen in goudopdruk op rug. Reparaties rug en hoeken. Leer op rug wat gebarsten en langs rug begint het leer te splijten/is gespleten. Intern hier en daar wat licht gebruind, wat foxing, maar over het geheel genomen nog zeer goed. Fraaie uitgave in groot formaat met ruime marges en grote gravures in de tekst..

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Book number: 5708

PAGE, JESSE

Bishop Patteson the Martyr of Melanesia

London, S.W. Partridge & Co., Ltd, n.d.. Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. 160 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Dustjacket with wear and loss (more so to the back), would be described at most as fair. With a label from the Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church Sunday School Library. Twenty-eight thousand. Binding and contents good. Binding decorated with a vikingship (both on the front and spine). Rare to find a copy with a dustjacket.

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Book number: 6907

PARK, MUNGO

Travels in the Interior of Africa

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1858. Hardcover. xvi+345 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Fair, Some wear and small spots to binding. Titlepage has small piece missing at the top of the page (no loss of text). Some foxing, a some pages standing proud. With titleplate and 5 plates.

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Book number: 6553

PATON, MAGGIE WHITECROSS

Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Hardcover (cloth). xi+382+(2) pp. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Good, With map in colour and illustrations in b & w. Gilt illustrations to front board. Maggie Whitecross Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton. She tells about the life on Ainiwa (New Hebrides) in the nineteenth century. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 6721

PERHAM, MARGERY

West African Passage: A Journey through Nigeria, Chad and the Cameroons

London, Peter Owen, 1983. Hardcover, met stofomslag. No images. Conditie: Good.

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Book number: 6540

PERKINS, HENRY; SWANTON, E.W.; RAYVERN, ALLEN

Scores of the Cricket Matches Between Oxford & Cambridge from the Commencement up to Date TOGETHER WITH The Test Matches of 1953 TOGETHER WITH The Second Lord s Cricket Ground, Home of MCC 1811-1813 (Lot of three (3) publications

London, F.E. Robinson, 1898. Hardcover. No images. Conditie: Good, Three publications, one hardcover, two paperback. Second published by The Daily Telegraph in 1953.

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Book number: 9023

PETITOT, M.

Répertoire du Théatre François ou recueil des tragédies et comédies restées au théatre depuis Rotrou pour faire suite aux éditions in-octavo de Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Regnard, Crébillon, et au théatre de Voltaire. Nouvelle édition. 25 Volumes

Paris, Foucault, 1817-1818. 20,8 cm, Hardcover. No images. Conditie: Very good, Red calf on spine with gilt details, two mor. letterpieces. Marbled boards. Signed by printer. A little bit of wear to the bindings. Contents with a little foxing but overall in good/very good condition. Books measure 79 cm on bookshelf and weigh about 13,35 kg.

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Book number: 9832

PETRARCH

Thoughts from the letters of Petrarch

London, Dent, 1901. Leather binding. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Leather binding by A. Genova from Venice. Front board with bass coloured metal decorations and decorated in with floral decorations in colour by hand. With colour portrait of Petrarch on the front board. Spine and back decorated with foliage. Wear to binding, with leather straps. Back board with a small dent along the lower edge. End papers decorated with foliage in gilt and green. With frontispiece. A little foxing, mainly to the first few leaves, page 146 and 147 in the top corner browned, otherwise good. Unique binding. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 7666

Piamenta, Moshe

Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic. Part 2

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1991. Hardcover (cloth). No images. Conditie: Very good, Letters in goudopdruk op band. In goede staat. Tweede deel (gepagineerd 275 t/m 541). Woordenboek Yemeni Arabic-English.

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Book number: 11785

PILCHER, LEWIS STEPHEN

A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher. With biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions

Brooklyn, New York , n.p., 1918. Hardcover (cloth back). 201 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Very good, Title printed in red and black.Printed in a limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 87. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 9761

PILON, EDMOND

La Vie de Famille au Dix-huitieme Siecle - Art Deco binding

Paris, G. Cres, 1923. Hardcover. Black & White images. Conditie: Very good, Bound in green quarter morocco with and red/brown vertical morocco strip, textured boards. Horizontal goldruled lines and brown morocco label with letters in gilt. Binding in Art Deco style. Top edge of pages gilt. Binding by Renee Regine Comtat-Vryais (inscription on blank page by him dated Paris 1939). Original wrappers bound in. Just slightly rubbed at extremities and morocco on spine a bit faded. Contents in good condition. Beautiful binding.

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Book number: 8524

PROTHERO, R. MANSELL

Migrant Labour from Sokoto Province Northern Nigeria

n.p., n.p., 1958. Paperback. 46 pp. No images. Conditie: Good, Not dated but preface with date January 1958. Small tear in the back cover. Binding with staples. With nine loose folding maps. Some marking in red pen.

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Book number: 6591

PURCELL, THEOBALD ANDREW

Our Neighbourhood or sketches in the Suburbs of Yedo

Yokohama, n.p., 1874. 20,5 cm, Three quarter leather binding. 124 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Fair, Missing its frontispiece and titlepage. With 23 (of 24 originally, because of the missing frontispiece, but with an extra plate from elsewhere) plates. Folding map of Japan in the back. Leather on spine and corners, marbled boards. Leather title shield (with some loss) with gilt letters. Some small holes because of bookworms, towards the end more pronounced, with some loss of letters (especially the last few leaves with text). A few tissue-guards missing. Some corners with small folds. . Contents: Our Neighbourhood........... 1 The Sake Shop .............. 9 The Stone Mason ............ 17 The Barber ................. 22 The Blind Boy .............. 32 The Barber's Tale........... 36 The Tapster's Story ........ 43 The Kamikudsuhiroi or Picker-up of Paper-scraps... 48 Ujigami no Matsuri.......... 53 Nagare Kanjo................ 69 The Sparrow Catcher ........ 62 The Doctor.................. 65 The Fortune-Teller ......... 74 The Story-Teller ........... 88 By the River................ 94 Kichibei, the Cakeman ...... 97 A Flute Player ............ 100 Concerning Ants ........... 103 The Bells ................. 104 The Old Gate............... 114 The Graveyard.............. 119 List of plates present (sometimes the description beneath the plates (which I used) is somewhat different from the one used in the list of plates at the back: 2. Old Street.............. 2 3. Old Street ............. 6 4. Funeral ................ 8 5. Sake Shop............... 10 6. The Mojiyaki............ 25 7. The Amoya............... 26 8. The Barber... .......... 28 9. Bewitched by a Fox.. ... 30 10. The Blind Boy ......... 32 11. The Kamikudsuhiroi .... 48 12. The Mikoshi ........... 54 13. The Dashi.............. 58 14. Nagare Kanjo........... 60 15. The Sparrow Catcher.... 62 16. The Doctor.......... .. 66 17. The Fortune-Teller..... 74 18. The Story-Teller....... 88 19. Kichibei............... 97 20. A Flute Player......... 100 21. An Ant Charm.. ........ 104 22. The Bells.............. 108 23. A Gateway ............. 114 24. The Graveyard.......... 120. Interesting book about Japan with condition issues as described, still a rare and desirable copy..

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Book number: 5966

RABOISSON, ANTOINE

En Orient. Recits et notes d un voyage en Palestine et en Syrie par l Egypte et le Sinai

Paris, Librairie Catholique de l Oeuvre de Saint-Paul, 1886. Hardcover. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Modern red leather bindings. Leather gilt, edges pages gilt. In slipcase. Set of 2 volumes with maps and plates Binding and contents good.. Signed and with dedication by the author to Pere Lapidi: Au Reverendissime Pere Lepidi O.P. Maitre du Sacre Palais Apostolique Hommage de profond respect et de religieuse et filiale affection. Rare, especially signed by the author. Beautiful set with lots of plates. About a voyage through Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

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Book number: 7237