ADELBORG, OTTILIA (Ill.) [CHILDREN'S ALMANAC]

Almanacka 1890. Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1889.

. 16mo. Pp (16). Original colour decorated boards. With the unusual dust jacket, some minor browning and small insignificant paper loss at lower edge. Ottilia Adelborg (1855-1936) was a Swedish artist and children's book illustrator. A charming calendar in exceptionally good condition.

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Book number: 121353

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Keywords: Old and Rare Books, children, barn, almenacka, almanac, calendar, juvenile, illustrated,

BRAUN, ISABELLA:

Allranyaste Teater-Bilderbok med rörliga figurer. Fyra lustspel för de kära små. (New theatre picture book with movable figures. Four plays for the little ones). Stockholm, Oscar L. Lamm, tryckt hos J.F. Schreiber i Esslinge, no date (1884).

. Folio ( 26.5 x 35 cm). Pp (12). Text in Swedish. Four three-dimensional pop-up chromolithograph scenes, handled by silk ribbons. Publisher's boards, cloth spine, with coloured lithograph picture on upper cover. Contains four theatre plays for children: "Spring", "Summer excursion", "Apple picking" and "Christmas". Each charming pop-up scene is accompanied by a script and song lyrics. Three leaves are chipped at the outer edge but overall, a wonderful copy. Provenance: Bertil Gustafsson (1940-2024), Swedish book collector. Klinger - Bratt 621. 

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Book number: 121633

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Keywords: Old and Rare Books, children, barm kind, theater, theatre, play, pop-up, sweden. swedish

DEY, MUKUL (Artist) / [HEDIN, SVEN - PORTRAIT].

[Original dry-point impression by Mukul Dey. Berlin ca 1926].

. Original dry-point impression of Sven Hedin, signed by Mukul Dey in pencil, on very fine paper. Size: 15 x 19 cm. Mounted in a passe-partout. The original copper-plate was inscribed by Sven Hedin and appears as a mirror image. Mukul Dey visited Hedin in Berlin in 1926 and we believe this etching was made then. Mukul Chandra Dey (1895-1989), Indian painter and engraver, was a student of Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan School during the early years of the 20th century. He travelled abroad to be able to study printmaking as an art. He went to Japan, America and England and he came to concentrate on drypoint etching. He is remembered for his images of Bengaqli villagers but also for his portraits of various famous men, such as Tagore, Einstein, Gandhi and Sven Hedin. Mukul Dey visited Hedin in Berlin in 1926 and we believe this etching was made then. Provenance: Archeologist Ashok Mitra, who used to live in Uttar para near Calcutta.

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Book number: 100207

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, hedin, portrait, mukel dey, dey, inde, indian, indien, asia, asie, asiatic,

EEKMAN, NICOLAS (Ill.) / GAUTHIER-VILLARS, MARGUERITE (Comp.):

Voyageur immobile. 33 petits poèmes dont un avec musique. Textes, dessins en couleurs et agréments de Eekman. Musique de Mlle. M. Gauthier-Villars. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1933.

. Small 4to. (19 x 24.3 cm). Pp. 73, (1). With 16 colour lithographs, one coloured plate of music and 25 text illustrations. Publisher's coil binding, pictorial front cover, some light wear to covers. First edition of this charming book with poems for children together with lovely imaginative illustrations. (Not one of the signed copies). Nicolas Eekman, a Belgian-born artist who in 1921 settled in Paris and was a part of all the artistic movements of the time.

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Book number: 120865

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, children, music, french, france, frankrike, barnbok, illustrated, avant garde,

GUYON, JEANNE- MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTHE:

La vie de Madame J.M.B. de la Mothe Guion. Ecrite par Elle-même. Three volumes. Cologne, chez Jean de la Pierre, 1720.

. Pp. 47, 32, 317, 2; 11, 296, (2), one blank leaf; pp.10, (2), 324. First title printed in red and black. As issued, uncut in old wrappers, chipped and slightly damaged. With one engraved portrait of the authoress, signed "Dunker 1788". Rare first edition of this important biography in the history of mysticism. It is probably not written by Madame Guyon herself, but edited by her disciple Pierre Poiret after her manuscripts. Madame Guyon (1648-1717), prominent French mystic author, was frequently arrested for heresy and immorality. Preface by Pierre Poiret (1646-1719), French Protestant mystic. Caillet II, no. 4895. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 1337.

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Book number: 777072

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, mysticism, spirituality, occult, french, france, biography, literature

[LAPLAND] HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAF:

Försök till mineral historia öfver Lappmarken och Vesterbotten. Stockholm, Carl Delén, 1804.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 70. Text in Swedish. With two maps (one large folding engraved map, partly coloured) and one engraved folding plate. Modern half cloth, title label on upper cover. Old ink inscription two leaves. Some light staining.First edition. An account of the mineral history of Swedish Lapland and West Bothnia. The first detailed account of the location and orographic conditions of these areas, based on Hermelin's own and others' travels. Hermelin collected large amounts of mineral samples on his journeys. Marklund 2383.

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Book number: 121519

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Keywords: Old and Rare Books, sweden, sverige, lappland, same, lapland, travel, exploration, mineralogy, geology, science, iron ore, ore

KLEEN, TYRA (Illustrator) / BERGMAN, JONAS:

Sagan om Odysseus. Hans äventyr och irrfärder på hav och land och i dödsriket. En snart tretusenårig saga ånyo berättad för ungdomen. Stockholm, Ivar Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1906.

. Tall 4to. (33.8 x 24.4 cm). Pp. (viii), 104. (Small loss to lower corner pp. 15/16). Text in Swedish. With lovely illustrations by Tyra Kleen, of which many full page. Original decorated wrappers, printed in colours, spine nicely restored, small nick to outer front edge of front cover. Exlibris (Ivar Fält). Small number on front endpaper. A clean and crisp copy. First edition.This is a Swedish version of Odysseus' adventures and long journey written for young people. Tyra Kleen illustrated this work during her time in Rome. Based on the ancient Odysseus paintings on vases and Pompeian frescoes, she tried to create modern images without disturbing the impression of classical stylisation and naive pleasure that the ancient models give (according to preface). Rare.

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Book number: 121179

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, greek, greece, homer, odysseus, odyssey, story, tale, illustrated, ancient, old, sweden, swedish,

LEMNIUS, LEVINUS:

De Miraculis Occultis Naturae, Libri IIII: Item de Vita cum animi et corporis incolumitate recte instituenda, liber unus. Frankfurt, ex off. typographia Ioannis Welchi, 1593.

. 16mo. Pp. xvi, 582, (56). Contemporary vellum on boards, richly decorated in blind, rubbed, spine with five raised bands, ties missing. Contemporary annotations on end papers. Early edition of Lemnius's famous book on occult phenomena, first published in 1559 and reprinted many times. Includes interesting treatises on medicine and pharmacology. Levinus Lemnius born 1505 in Ziericzea (Holland) was a renowned physician and astrologer. Caillet ii 470. Durling 2773. Thorndike 6, p. 393.

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Book number: 99510

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, occult, mysticism, astrology, medicine, holland, the netherlands, spirituality,

LINNÉ, CARL VON & GEORGII, GEORG EBERHARD:

Opium, quod, dissertatione medica, venia experient. Fac. Medicae in Reg. Acad. Upsaliensi, praeside ... Carolo à Linné. ... Publice ventilandum sistit Georgius Eberhardus Georgii. ... In audit. Carol. Majori, die XV. Nov. MDCCLXXV. Upsala, Typis Edmannianis, [1775].

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 17, (1). Contemporary wrappers, stained and worn. Old ownership signature on title. Rare dissertation about the opium plant "Papaver somniferum", the manufacturing process and its use in medicine. Georg Eberhard Georgii (1755-1816) was a Swedish court pharmacist. Soulsby no. 2444. Lidén p. 319.

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Book number: 100786

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, opium, medicine, medical, plant, botany, botanical

MARCOUL, SAINT, ABBÉ OF NANTEUIL:

La vie tres-ample de monsieur S. Marcoul Abbé & Consesseur. La Feste duquel se celebre le premier iour de May, Il viuoit y a mil ans. Rheims, chez la veufue Jean de Foigny, près le College de bons Enfans, 1603.

. Pp. (32). With large woodcut of saint Marcoul healing a child on title. Modern boards. Some minor staining and one leaf with small marginal repair. Marcoul (Marcouf or Marcoult) is a saint of the Catholic church, who lived in the 6th century in Normandy. Hid relics in Corbigny had the reputation of curing scrofula and skin deases. The book concludes with a series of dietary advice and medical prescriptions. Rare. See Frère, Bib. Normande ii, 506. Lelong i, 12251.

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Book number: 99513

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Keywords: Old & Rare Books, occult, mysticism, medicine, religious, french, europe, healing, spirituality