M.B.*** (ie M. Antoine Bret)

MEMOIRES SUR LA VIE DE MADEMOISELLE DE LENCLOS par M.B.

Amsterdam, Joly 1754 . 3 Parts in One duodecimo marbled calf spine extra gilt with gilt lettered spine label (some worm damage to spine but covers well attached) All Edges Rouged half title, TP in red & black viii+120+viii 120pp 128pp in this edition the 2nd and 3rd titlepages seem not to be called for as the catchword for the next part occurs at the end of the previous part. Slight foxing but a neat tight copy of these letters of the courtesan to the Marquis de Sevigne, one of her lovers. *Most if not all these letters are spurious fabrications.

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Book number: V65650

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: letters French courtesan

S.,R.L. (ie R.L.S.)

THE OWL-HUNT

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York : E. & J.B. Young and Co 1902) according to Cambridge Univ. Library Frontis signed W.S.S (most likely W.S. Stacey). . 152x121mm red pictorial cloth over thin boards -repeat of the frontis illustration (cover boards creased/tips rubbed/sl.marked) 47pp. Small strip cut from margin of frontis else neat and clean. *Story of two mischievous boys who go to a ruined castle and nearly get caught by the game keeper but when one lad is found out the other does not confess. Finally he is made to see that withholding the truth is as bad as a lie so he confesses and feels better for it.

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Book number: J69451

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian moral story

[Catter Thun, ie Hugh Mackenzie Campbell]:

Quotations "Wise and Otherwise".

St Fillans, 1909. First edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), [iii], 77pp. Original printed japon wrappers. The corners of the covers and the first few pages are dog-eared, and the preliminary pages are foxed. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition. The dedication page bears the printed name of "Catter Thun" as the editor. Catter Thun was the pseudonym of author Hugh Mackenzie Campbell.

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Book number: 40777

Catalogue: 4

VAN ABBEMUSEUM, EINDHOVEN. - CROUWEL, WIM & LIANG IE, KHO [TYP.]

De verzameling. [Collectie Van Abbe-museum]

Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, ca. 1958. 26,5 x 20 cm. Oorspronkelijke omslag / Softcover. Geïllustreerd z/w & kleur. 100 pag.

Antiquariaat Frans MelkProfessional seller

Book number: 94176

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art / Dutch art general ;

VAN ABBEMUSEUM, EINDHOVEN. - CROUWEL, WIM & LIANG IE, KHO [TYP.]

De verzameling. [Collectie Van Abbe-museum]

Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, ca. 1958. 26,5 x 20 cm. Oorspronkelijke omslag / Softcover. Geïllustreerd z/w & kleur. Ontwerp Wim Crouwel , Kho liang le [GKf]. 100 pag. KEURIG EXEMPLAAR

Antiquariaat Frans MelkProfessional seller

Book number: 121852

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art / Dutch art general ;

ANSTEY, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie].

A Bayard From Bengal. Being some account of the magnificent and spanking career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, Esq. B.A., Cambridge, by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., Calcutta University, ...

London, Methuen 1902. Octavo publisher's cloth with mounted illustration; eight plates by Bernard Partridge, 40pp publisher's list dated August 1902. A touch of browning and minor signs of use, a rather good copy.
¶ First edition of this spanking example of comedy that can no longer be funny; a slur from the caption on the frontispiece to the very last word. Anstey specialised in fish out of water - or stranger in a strange land - situation comedy, often fantastic, and I get him mixed up with his imitator with a parallel pseudonym, R. Andom who specialised in identity exchange. Here we follow the adventures of our Indian hero in Oxford and highish society as portrayed by a fellow Anglophile and drawn by a last minute stand in for the desired Royal Academician, whose ignorance of things British needs constant correction. All this sparked a letter to the Spectator from an Andra Singha in September 1902 complaining that Anstey's mockery of Indian writings in English was too easy a target, tired and misguided. Anstey's mockery of Indians themselves was not worth tackling.

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Book number: 9836

Keywords: literature fiction humour c20th England India race racism

Lord roch---r [ie Lord Rochester=actually John Freke (1651-1717) + Mr.Ayloff

THE HISTORY OF INSIPIDS A Lampoon by the Lord Roch---r with his FAREWELL 1680 together with MARVIL'S GHOST by Mr.Ayloff.

London, H.Hills 1709 6 floral ornaments rather than 14 cf.Foxon 249 . sm. Octavo disbound. 16pp The top THE in the title is half cropped off and the page numbers of the last leaf are also partly affected the [15] or so than the [16]. Usual foxing/paper tanning and JV or possibly W in margin of first text leaf + two old ink corrections else neat. The Insipids are a satire of Charles II written some 30 years earlier in 1680 but only circulated in manuscript until it was printed, with other items, in a Miscellany. There are two editions of this 1709 printing one with 6 flower ornaments on the titlepage the other with 14.

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Book number: V75294

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: poetry poems political satire

Brown, Bovery & C.ie. Baden -

Revue BBC.

Baden, 1926, n. 4 - 1927, n. 8 - 1928, 1, 11 - 1930, 1, 3, 4, 10, 11 - 1931, n. 2, 5, 6, 8. Tredici fascicoli con num. ill. cad. (motori, generatori, turbine, ecc.).

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Book number: 4-21593

Keywords: (Industrie elettriche)

GILBERT ROCK [IE JOHN ALEXANDER BARR]

Colonists. Illustrating goldfields and city life in Australia between 1851 and 1870.

Dunedin, J. Wilkie. 1888, First Edition. Half-Leather, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 151 pages. Ex-New Zealand General Assembly Library with a gilt library stamp on front cover and spine, leather rubbed on edges and corners. a few mm from the middle of the top of pages 139-151 torn out, well away from text, creasing at bottom of pages 19-26. Rare novel published by Dunedin lawyer John Alexander Barr under the pseudonym Gilbert Rock. A thriller based in the Mount Alexander and Bendigo diggings in Victoria. Good.

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Book number: 011048

Catalogue: Australia

BEYER, R[IE],

De Firma Bulletje en Aapje. Een boeiend meisjes-verhaal. Orig.edn.

Helmond, Boek- en handelsdrukkerij 'Helmond', [..], 1935. large 8°. orig. pict. publ. wraps., designed by Frans Wanders. 159pp. Text-ills. after drawings by Frans Wanders. [Meisjesbibliotheek - No.25]. BUUR, I.J., 0591. Teen-age girl's novel set at Amsterdam, with i.a. references to colonial Indonesia: Balikpapan (Borneo) and Batavia (Java). Sequel to:Aapje (nickname of main character: a girl in her late teens). (spine-ends with some rubbing, small horizontal puncture in lower part of spine, small piece clipped from lower right front corner of upper wrap., lightly dog-eared).

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Book number: 39097

Keywords: juvenile/borneo/batavia/buur

Vinkeles Rein(ie)r en C.Bogerts

Plonderen van het huis van de Burgem: Landsbergen te Middelburg

Vinkeles Rein(ie)r en C.Bogerts, Plonderen van het huis van de Burgem: Landsbergen te Middelburg, rechthoekig historieprentje, kopergravure, naar een tekening van J(acobus) Buys, Amsterdam), (Johannes Allart), (1788), Afkomstig uit (Jacobus Kok en Jan Fokke), Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Voor de Vaderlandsche jeugd. Met plaaten en pourtraiten, Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1783-1795 in 25 delen. Dit portret komt vermoedelijk uit deel IX, dat is verschenen in 1788, afbeelding / papier: 8,2 x 5,5 / 9 x 5,5 cm, Links, rechts en bovenin tot aan de rand van de afbeelding afgesneden. Goede afdruk, Wilde taferelen in Middelburg. Woedende mensen halen allerlei spullen uit een huis en gooien brood en serviesgoed uit het raam. Schilderijen en matrassen worden stukgesneden. Iemand staat klaar met een grote vaas om deze in scherven te smijten. Een man zwaait met een bijl, een hondje blaft en een jongetje staat te schreeuwen. Toeschouwers moedigen de plunderaars aan, Muller 2023, Jan van Landsbergen, arts en burgemeester van Middelburg en zijn ambtgenoot Henrik Thibaut waren vurige voorstanders van het Oranjehuis. Na de dood van Willem II in november 1650 vreesden de Oranjeaanhangers voor vermindering van hun invloed, omdat de Staten van Zeeland in plaats van de overleden stadhouder de regenten zouden kiezen. Thibaut manipuleerde de voordracht en zette er geestverwanten op. Dit was tegen het zere been van de burgerij. Het gepeupel trok op. Thibaut, Landsbergen en Serooskerke vluchtten de stad uit. Het verlaten huis van Landsbergen werd op 6 juni 1651 geplunderd

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Book number: 1245

Vinkeles Rein(ie)r en C.Bogerts

De vroedschap te Utrecht beëdigt het nieuwe Regeerings Reglement

Vinkeles Rein(ie)r en C.Bogerts, De vroedschap te Utrecht beëdigt het nieuwe Regeerings Reglement, rechthoekig historieprentje, kopergravure, naar een tekening van J(acobus) Buys, (Amsterdam), (Johannes Allart), (1791), Ooit door een verzamelaar verwijderd uit een exemplaar van (Jacobus Kok en Jan Fokke), Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Voor de Vaderlandsche jeugd. Met plaaten en pourtraiten, Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1783-1795 in 25 delen. Dit prentje komt uit deel XVI, dat is verschenen in 1791. Het prentje staat in dat boekje tegenover p.50, afbeelding / prent / papier: 8,2 x 5,5 / 8,4 x 5,5 / 12,8 x 7,5 cm, Papier aan alle kanten afgesneden. Linker marge kleiner dan de andere. Rechts bovenaan is de aanduiding van het deel en het nummer van de prent meegedrukt. Goede afdruk. Sfeervol prentje, Muller 4705a, Op 20 maart 1786 beëdigde de vroedschap van Utrecht een nieuw Regeringsreglement

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Book number: 3029

BROCK, R.W. [ie John Alexander Barr].

Mihawhenua: the Adventures of a Party of Tourists Amongst a Tribe of Maoris Discovered in Western Otago, New Zealand. Recorded By R. W. Brock, MA, LLB. Edited By R. H. Chapman. (Being a Manuscript Addressed to the Editor, Found Attached to a Maori Kite on Mount Alta ...

Dunedin, Wilkie & Co 1888. Octavo publisher's illustrated wrapper (spine chipped); 198,[2 adverts]pp. Used but a very decent copy.
¶ A lost race thriller with the race being discovered in a lush world around a warm lake hidden in the mountains. Barr published a few novels all in a rush, including two thrillers - one Australian - under the name Gilbert Rock but his own story is perhaps more exciting than Moa riding Maoris, cannibals, and treacherous French sailors. A Dunedin lawyer, he petitioned in 1888 for a protective tax on all imported literature, assuring the government that he was "prepared to supply the colonial market with literature if inducement offers." All his known novels then appeared by November. Soon after he did 'the Pacific Slope' (a great term I hadn't heard before), abandoning his family and absconding with many thousands of his clients' pounds either lost or in his pocket. Here Barr vanishes from view except for a startling piece in the Auckland Star of October 1 1894 in which is mentioned a letter just received by Sir George Grey from the author of Mihawhenua with a return address but an indecipherable signature. No-one could decipher the signature so Grey's secretary cut the signature from the letter and pasted it onto the reply. No connection was made between the author of Mihawhenua and the missing lawyer. A final glimpse is a London death notice in 1907 which identifies him as a former solicitor of Dunedin and tells us he has been living in England with his wife and family for five or six years. I wonder if it was the same family. The dedication, to the colonial press in "grateful acknowledgment", of one of his thrillers, 'By Passion Driven', was declined on conscientious grounds by the Christchurch Telegraph who said, "What object Mr Gilbert Rock could have had we do not know". Perhaps his dedication was for The Daily Telegraph who described his 'Colonists' as "not a badly told story".

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Book number: 9178

Keywords: literature fiction thrillers fantasy lost race New Zealand c19th

Converse, Harriet Maxwell (Ya-ie-wa-noh); & Parker, Arthur Caswell (Ga-wa-so-wa-neh) edited

Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois (Museum Bulletin 125 )

Albany, Ny, The University of the State of New York/The State Education Department, 1981. Paperback. Collectible Condition Fine Academic Museum Bulletin 125 Stiff Card Stock Covers. First Thus. Clean 195 pp. Cover Illus.'Legend of the Little Dipper' Seven dancing Indian brothers by Seneca artist Ernest P. Smith. This fantastic collection of Iroquois Myths and Legends collected by adapted Harriet Maxwell Converse turn of the century and edited by the great Seneca scholar and Archaeologist Arthur Parker. Scary beings like massive Flying Heads and Cannibal Stone Coats, Vampires who knaw on sleeping bodies and the Longhouse belief in the Little People of the Six Nations. Much more and many Photos, drawings. Fine, collectible condition and NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Fine .

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Book number: 9000173

Catalogue: Pre-Columbus Voyages/Ancient America/ Mound Builder/ Rock Art

Keywords: seneca little people mohawk stone giants oneida stonecoats cayuga flying heads iroquois myths longhouse giants arthur parker seneca legend North American Folklore and Supernatural Fantasy Literature Iroquois Longhouse Mohawk / Oneida / Onondaga / Cayuga

CRAMER, R[IE] [MARIE CRAMER, 1887-1977],

Pompijntje het Kabouterkind. Nieuwe Rijmpjes. First. edn.

Den Haag, Van Goor, s.d. [..], 1934. Recent rebacked original boards, large coloured illustration pasted-on front cover, within two horizontal coloured decorative border, designed by Rie [Marie] Cramer, with title in bold black and red type. New matching f.e.p.'s, Hftitle ( with a coloured illustration, on recto/verso). ti.-p. printed in red and black type, coloured illustration at tail, and on verso. 104pp. Many fairly large coloured text-ills., all after drawings by author, table of contents. Dutch language children's book, being a rhymed story describing the adventures of small girl in gnome-country. Printed on heavy paper, uncut. Good copy. (spine skilfully rebacked, new matching endpapers, lower right corner of lvs. with some fraying throughout).

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Book number: 45780

Keywords: youth literature dutch children story rie cramer gnomes adventures rhyme