FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE; COURBOULEIX, LEON (ILL.)

Hérodias. 1 of 20 copies with original drawing by Leon Courbouleix and 2 extra suites of plates

Paris, n.p., n.y.. 33 cm, Different. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Very good, Published in loose sheets, once folded creating 80 pages. In slipcase. Printed in a limited edition of just 61 copies. This being number 6 out of 20 copies printed on papier Arches, signed by the illustrator (Leon Courbouleix). With an original drawing in colour by Courbouleix (signed at the bottom, the engraving for which this drawing was the base is somewhat different) and two additional suites of plates. One suite in sanguine and one in black and white. Each suite consists of the cover, titleplate and 14 plates which all are also included in the book (so of the mentioned illustrations there three plates each). The plates and suite are blank on the reverse side. The title page is partly illustrated as well and there are three illustrations within the text. Three capital letters are decorated in gilt and black and white. Other capital letters throughout the text are printed in red. Text in French. Rare copy of the edition with two suites. More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 10511

FLORIAN, J.-P. CLARIS DE

[Reliure] Fables Choisies de J.-P. Claris de Florian illustrrees par des artistes Japonais sous la direction de P. Barboutau Tokio. 1 ere et deuxieme serie

Paris, Marpon & Flammarion, 1895. 21 cm, Leather binding. 24, (1); 24, (1) pp. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Very good, Formaat circa 21 cm, gewicht ongeveer 0,51 kg. Ingebonden in een fraaie donkerrode marokijnen band. Voorplat rijk versierd met ingelegd leer in verguld, verzilverd en diverse kleuren waarbij een vlinder en een vogel alsook takken met bloesem zijn afgebeeld. Rug versierd in goudopdruk. Bovenkant goud op snede. Met gemarmerde schutbladen. Originele covers (voor- en achterkanten) mee ingebonden. Gedrukt op papier pur chiffon du Japon. Papier op Japanse manier gevouwen dat wil zeggen slechts één kant bedrukt en papier aan de lange kant onopengesneden (met uitzondering van de cover en het eerste blad van het eerste deel). Zowel eerste als tweede serie met veertien platen buiten de tekst over twee bladzijden welke niet meegenomen zijn in de paginering (dus in totaal 24 illustraties). Geïllustreerd met composities van de Japanse kunstenaars Ka-no Tomo-nobou (11), Kadji-ta Han-ko (12) en Kou-bo-ta To-soui (5). Originele covers beide ook voorzien van een kleurenillustratie. Verder met illustraties in zwart-wit in de tekst. Zeer fraaie band. Met wat slijtageplekjes band. Boekblok in goede staat. Ieder deel met veertien fabels. Referentienummer 11610. Meer foto's beschikbaar op aanvraag. More photos available upon request.

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Book number: 11610

FRITSCH, K.E.O.

Denkmäler Deutscher Renaissance

Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1882-1890/1. 49 cm, Hardcover. vii, 86, (1) pp + 275 plates. Black & White images. Conditie: Fair, Eleven portfolio's numbered I to XII (excluding number VII). Wear and spotting to portfolio's. Each portfolio contains 25 plates as stated on the cover of the portfolio's depicting various architectural buildings and details in Germany but also some plates about other cities like Prague, Basel and Zürich. So 275 plates in total. Plates mostly after photographs. Plates with some foxing, a few browned and most a bit thumbed/soiled. Some plates with a few small tears or loss to the edge, not touching the printed area. Size of the portfolio's about 49 x 33 cm and together they weigh nearly 19 kg. Part XII als contains text with illustrations. The date on the titlepage (1891) differs from the date stated on the portfolio (1890).

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Book number: 9516

GARDINER, MARGARET

Footprints on Malekula: a memoir of Bernard Deacon

London, Free Association Books, 1987. Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. xviii+75 pp. No images. Conditie: Very good, With dedication by the author on blank page. With pencil the remark "Press Copy" Small indentation on a page where a paperclip was attatched. Bernard Deacon spent 14 months on the island Malekula. This island is part of Vanuatu (when Deacon lived there it was called the New Hebrides). During his time there he wrote letters to Margaret Gardener. Just when he was about to start his teaching job at the university of Sydney he passed away in 1927. 50 years later Gardiner discovers Deacon is regarded on Malekula as something akin to a mythical figure.

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Book number: 6852

GARRISON, RITCHIE

Task Force 9156 and III Island Command. A Story of South Pacific Advanced Base During World War II Efate, New Hebrides

n.p., Privately Published, 1983. Hardcover (cloth). ix+125 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, With map and illustrations. Gilt stamped green cloth. About the American military presence on Efate (New Hebrides in the Pacific) during the Second World War.

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Book number: 6756

GIANNINI, GIUSEPPE

De la nature des fievres, et de la meilleure methode de les traiter

Paris, L. Collin, 1808. 20,5, Hardcover. (6), xxxviii, 414; (4), 444 pp. No images. Conditie: Good, Beautiful dark blue full marocco leather bindings, gilt on all sides. Spines decorated with rods of Asclepius. All edges of pages gilt. Marbled end papers. Some wear to bindings, second volume with a few scuffmarks to upper board. Pages with some foxing but far age in good conditioin. First French edition. Treatise on the treatment of fevers.

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Book number: 9152

GIDE, ANDRE

La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir

Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921. 24 cm, Different. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Very good, Beautiful turquoise three quarter (on spine and corners) moroccan binding with marbled boards. Binding with gilt lines at the edges of the leather. Five raised bands on spine and letters gilt on spine. Binding with some discolouration, mainly to the spine. Top of pages gilt. Marbled end papers. Original front and back cover bound in as well. With illustrations after watercolours by Marie Laurencin, engraved in wood by Jules Germain and I. Petitrabat. Frontispiece and three other plates in colour, as well as smaller illustraties in monochrome and colour in the text. Printed in a limited edition of 412 numbered copies, this being number 329 of 400 printed on Lafuma-Navarre. Contents with a little foxing but still a good or better copy . More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 9993

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON

Das Maerchen

Wien und Hellerau, Im Avalun-Verlag, 1922. Different. 105+(3) pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Hardcover. Bound in leather by hand by P.A. Demeter in Hellerau, near Dresden. Some wear to binding. Top edge of pages gilt. With a beautiful lithograph by Max Slevogt. Printed in a limited edition of 260 copies. This is number 134, one of 135 bound in leather (numbers 1 to 135). First published in 1795 in Das Horen, a publication by Friedrich Schiller. Full of esetoric symbolism. Published during the time of the French revolution, an event Goethe, as a freemason, followed with much interest. Since its first appearance this story has been the subject of much debate regarding its meaning. Rare edition..

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Book number: 7641

GOGH, VINCENT VAN

Binding - Lettres de Vincent van Gogh a son frere Theo

Bruxelles, Editions du Frene, 1946. 19 cm, Hardcover. 395 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Very good, Bound in a beautiful full leather binding by J. Mauhin. Gilt decoration on front board in a flame pattern. Letters in gilt on spines Top of pages gilt. Marbled endpapers. Signed on turn-in. Original covers bound in. With slipcase decorated with marbled paper. . Limited edition of 910 copies (including 10 copies H.C.). This book is numbered 244, one of 800 printed on Velin Superieur. Unique copy due to the binding.

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Book number: 9157

GRACCHUS

Your M.P.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1944. Hardcover, met stofomslag. No images. Conditie: Good.

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Book number: 7273

GRANDVAL, N. RACOT DE

Cartouche, of de booswigt. Waar in de konst van beurzen snyden (door Cartouche onderweezen) verhandelt wert. Nog is hier agter aangeplaatst, twee woorden boekjes, namentlyk het eenen met het Nederduitsch voor, en het Bargoens er teegen over, en het andere met het Bargoens voor, en het Nederduitsch er over

Amsteldam (Amsterdam), J. de Ruyter, 1743, 2nd edition. 16,5 cm, Paperback. (12)+176 pp. Engravings. Conditie: Good, Marbled boards. With sixteen engravings (missing frontispiece), Wear to boards, thumbed/soiled at the beginning, a bit dog-eared. At the end there are Dutch-Bargoens and Bargoens-Dutch dictionaries.. Mist titelplaat maar met 16 platen aanwezig in dit boek: voor blz. 1, 13, 21, 35, 49, 51, 55, 63, 67, 73, 89, 95, 119, 127, 133, 137 Op bladzijde 140 een bericht voor de boekbinder. Dit is een lijst waarop aangegeven staat waar in het boek de platen ingebonden moeten worden. Deze lijst vermeld eveneens 16 platen.Slijtageplekjes kaften. Wat ezelsoortjes, wat smoezelig, voorin ex libris. Dit is een zeldzame vertaling in het Nederlands. Het boek geschreven in dichtvorm en is gebaseerd op het leven van de meesterdief Louis-Dominque Bourguignon (1693-1721) oftewel Cartouche. Achterin vanaf bladzijde 141 is bijgevoegd voor deze Nederlandse uitgave een Nederlands-Bargoens en Bargoens-Nederlandse woordenboek. Diefstal Criminaliteit..

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Book number: 9153

GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE

From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands

London, Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Hardcover (cloth). xii, 355 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, Binding with some wear, stain to front. With a plate from Toynbee Library and some other markings/paper by the library. Tear only affecting the blanc margin . Missing one plate. Gilt lettering to spine.

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Book number: 6849

GROSVENOR, R

Extracts from the Journal of Lord R. Grosvenor. Being an account of his visit to the Barbary Regencies in the spring of 1830

London, Darf Publishers, 1986. Different, met stofomslag. 100 pp. No images. Conditie: Good, The republication of this scarce volume will be welcomed by students and historians of North African history. It provides an account of the travels of Lord Grosvenor who, in 1829 and 1830, accompanied a British naval expedition to Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers for the purpose of gathering military intelligence. The present work takes the form of a personal narrative of the voyage, combining delightful descriptions of the country and its inhabitants, with the life and exploits of the naval party. This fine facsimile includes the charming engravings which enhanced the original edition. Hardcover with dustjacket.

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Book number: 9694

GUNN, WILLIAM; EDIN, P.; MRS. GUNN

Heralds of Dawn: Early Converts in the New Hebrides

London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, No Date. Hardcover (cloth). xv+175 pp. Black & White images. Conditie: Good, A little wear to the binding, but still a good or better binding. Some foxing (mainly to the first pages and the edges). With a label from the Women's Missionary Association Library (Muswell Hill Presbyterian Church). All illustrations present (contains list of illustrations). More photo's available upon request.

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Book number: 7109

HAILEY

An African Survey. A Study of Problems Arising in Africa South of the Sahara

London, Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. xxviii+1837 pp. Color Illustrations. Conditie: Very good, With six maps. Folding map in colour in the back with two other smaller maps in the corners (so three in total). Elsewhere three other maps in black and white (one folding). Extensive study about Africa. Subjects are agriculture, woods, water, erosion, African people, languages, laws, non-European immigrants, taxes, healthcare, education, minerals and mining, transport and communication, etc..

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Book number: 6526