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IN AUTUMN’S SICKLE.

1925

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: Elkin Mathews Ltd., 1925. First edition, 4to., pp.69, tipped-in b/w plates; very slightly darkening to prelims, dust jacket partially incomplete with tears and soiling, but otherwise a very good, bright copy.

'THE FRAGILITY OF HER SEX'? Medieval Irish Women in their European Context

MEEK, C.E. & SIMMS, M.K. · 1996

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.208, paperback; heavily sunned to spine and inner margin of wrappers, else a very good copy.

THE NORMANS IN THEIR HISTORIES.

ALBU, Emily. · 2001

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001. 8vo., pp.x,260, black hardcover, silver lettering, 3 b/w maps, a few b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, some very minor creasing to extremities.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE CHRONICLE OF FREDEGAR With its Continuations.

Translated from the Latin, with Introduction and Notes by: WALLACE-HADRILL, J.M. · 1981

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.lxvii,137, green hardcover, white lettering, Latin to English side by side translation; very light yellowing to pages, slight rubbing to extremities, else very good indeed, no dust-jacket..

WILLIAM ETTY Art & Controversy

BURNAGE, Sarah; HALLETT, Mark; TURNER, Laura. · 2011

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: Philip Wilson and York Museums Trust, 2011. 4to., pp.256, pictorial paperback, many colour plates and illustrations; one small mark to half title, else a near-fine copy.

NATHANIEL WHITTOCK'S BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE CIT OF YORK in the 1850s

MURRAY, Hugh.

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

York: Friends of York City Art Gallery, 4to, pp.48, pictorial stapled wrappers, many b/w illustrations accompanied by a coloured copy of the View in the end pocket; light rubbing to extremities, else very good indeed.

CREATED IN CANTON Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith

WILLIAMS, Ifan; Translated and edited by MAY BO, Ching

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, Press and Publication; Centre for Historical Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University n.d. Large 8vo., pp. xi, 376, pictorial hardcover, many colour illustrations, bilingual text with English and Chinese side by side; very goo...

WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL. Pages Out of the East.

HERVEY, Harry. Illustrations by Christopher Murphy. · 1924

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York and London: The Century Co., 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.349, pictorial dark green cloth showing a large statue of the Buddha, blocked in red and paler green, pictorial spine, gilt lettering, 31 b/w plates plus frontispiece; small ownership label to front endpaper...

SIX FAIRY TALES. The Little Sea Hare - Fundevogel - Rapunzel - The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear - Old Rinkrank - Rumpelstilzchen.

BROTHERS GRIMM. Illustrated by HOCKNEY, David. · 1970

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: Petersburg Press, in association with the Kasmin Gallery, April 1970. First edition, 16mo., unpaginated, full navy blue leatherette binding, 39 illustrations after original copper-engraved etchings by David Hockney; slight tone to margins, a near-fine copy.

WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA.

CHANG, Jung. · 1991

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: HarperCollins, 1991. First edition, first impression, 8vo., pp.524,(i), green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight roll to spine, light creasing spine, a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine.

THE HAND OF CAPTAIN DANJOU. Camerone and the French Foreign Legion in Mexico, 30 April 1863.

RICKARDS, Colin. · 2005

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Ramsbury, Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2005. 8vo., pp.480, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE BANQUET YEARS. The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I. Alfred Jarry - Henri Rousseau - Erik Satie- Guillaume Apollinaire.

SHATTUCK, Roger. · 1959

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. 8vo., pp.306, purple cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to edges, lower corner of front board bruised, else a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to margins, with closed tears t...

ALICE THRO' THE LOOKING-GLASS, And Other Fairy Plays for Children.

FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate. · 1882

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., (1882). First edition, 8vo., pp.202, pictorial teal blue cloth, gilt, a.e.g.; decorated endpapers, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates; contemporary ink ownership inscription to upper margin of title page, front free endpaper ...

THE JEWS UNDER ROMAN RULE. From Pompey to Diocletian a Study in Political Relations.

SMALLWOOD, Mary E. · 2001

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Boston: Brill, 2001. 8vo., pp.xiv,595, paperback; very lightly rubbed, else very good indeed.

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

ADAMS, Douglas; illustrated by BURTON, Jonathan. · 2014

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Folio Society, 2014. First Folio Society editon. 8vo., pp.xiii,194, pictorial hardcover, colour frontispiece, 7 further colour plates; a fine copy in a vg slip case.

SERGEANT SHAKESPEARE.

COOPER, Duff. · 1949

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. Small 8vo., pp.100, cloth, gilt; sunning at head/tailband, a very good copy indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to the margins, with light chipping and small closed tears to the edges, and 3cm closed tear to head of fold over upp...

KAFKA. A Biography in Three Volumes: Volume I. The Early Years; Volume II. The Decisive Years; Volume III. The Years of Insight.

STACH, Reiner. Translated by FRISCH, Shelley. · 2017

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017;2013;2013. 8vo., pp.xiv,564;vi,58;(vii),682, Volumes I and III hardcover, Volume II paperback, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine set, with just light shelf-marking to lower edges, Volumes I and III in unclipped du...

THE SELFISH GENE.

DAWKINS, Richard. · 2011

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: Folio Society, 2011. First Folio Society editon, 8vo., pp.xi,367, pictorial hardcover, many colour plates; a fine copy in a vg slip case.

biology and conservation of small falcons. Proceedings of the 1991 Hawk and Owl Trust Conference.

Edited by: NICHOLLS, M.K.; CLARKE, R. · 1993

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Taunton: Hawk and Owl Trust, 1993. 4to., pp.v,250, paperback, b/w figures; rubbing to extremities of wrappers, else very good.

A DREAM OF MAYA: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth-Century Yucatan.

DESMOND, Gustave; MESSENGER, Phyllis Mauch. Foreword by Jaime Litvak King. · 1989

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,748)

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Tall 8vo., pp.xxi,147, paperback, b/w illustrations; sunning to spine and margins of wrappers, else very good.