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In-12 (158 x 88 mm), plein veau brun de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs orné de compartiments fleuronnés, tranches mouchetées, (8), 222, (10) p. Edition originale. La Fontaine, ami de Benserade, publia ses fables en 1668. Ce dernier fit de même dix ans plus tard, toujours tirées d’Ésope. Mis en quatrains, elles étaient destinées à être gravées pour légender le groupe de figures représentant les héros du fabuliste grec qui décoraient le labyrinthe de Versailles créé par André Le Nôtre entre 1672 et 1677 pour l'éducation du dauphin, fils de Louis XIV. Chaque quatrain, au nombre de 220, est ici illustré d'un joli bois gravé en médaillon. On retrouve les plus célèbres fables comme Le Loup et l'Agneau, Le Corbeau et le Renard, La Cigale et la Fourmi, Le Chêne et le Roseau, etc., etc. La liberté de ces quatrains déplut à l'entourage religieux du Dauphin et La Bruyère se rangea à cette opinion. "Trente-neuf de ces apologues devaient être gravés sur le socle des groupes en plomb doré, qui représentaient des scènes ésopiques et décoraient le bosquet du Labyrinthe. La concision était donc naturellement de rigueur dont les petits médaillons ovales ont été taillés par Pierre Le Sueur selon la meilleure tradition du XVIe" (Emile Dacier, 'La gravure française', p. 51). Dramaturge et poète français, Isaac de Benserade (1612-1691) fut notamment l'auteur de livrets pour Lully. Homme d'esprit très en vue en son temps, académicien en 1674, il fut l'ami et le pensionné de Richelieu et de Mazarin. Charnières et dos restaurés. Signature ex-libris biffée au titre. Bon exemplaire grand de marges, intérieur frais, imprimé sur papier fort.
In-8 (195 x 136 mm), demi-maroquin lavallière à grands coins soulignés d'un double filet doré, dos à 5 nerfs filetés or, orné de compartiments encadrés de triples filets dorés, titre et date dorés, tête dorée (reliure signée R. Petit vers 1880), 125, (2) p., exemplaire non rogné. Édition originale. Adaptation pour enfants d'un conte traditionnel puisé dans le folklore germanique. Le récit humoristique de Dumas s'accompagne de 144 bois in texte de Bertall et d'un frontispice gravé sur bois par Lavieille. "Dumas, qui maîtrise bien le genre fantastique, nous montre qu'il s'y entend aussi pour évoquer le merveilleux. Il se permet même de faire parler le spectre de Berthe en vers" (Dumas père en ligne). Petit choc à une coupe sans gravité. Sans le catalogue éditeur. (Munro, 148-149. Paran, p. 49-50. Reed, 197. Vicaire, III, 372 et VI, 228). Bel exemplaire, imprimé sur beau papier crème, très bien relié par R. Petit
formato 41X31. Cofanetto in cartoncino contenente un volume in legatura in cartone con sovraccoperta in carta a mano con velina editoriale piegata a busta. Ricco di testi e litografie originali degli artisti. Presentazione di E.Cicelyn. Bella copia
Paris, Aux éditions du Moustié, 1944. 2 volumes in-8 en feuillets sous couverture illustrées rempliée double étui. 254 + 254 pages illustrées en couleurs par Sylvain Sauvage. Tirage limité numéroté à 700 exemplaires, celui-ci 1 des 75 premiers exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches, contenant un dessin original en couleur et une suite en noir numéroté de 1 à 75. Exemplaire n°5. L'étui est très légèremetn manipulé, l'intérieur en très bon état
In 12° grande (18×9,1 cm); 5 tomi: 270 pp., 268 pp., 277, (1) pp., 282 pp., 308, (2) pp. Le prime pagine del volme portano spesso numerazione romana. Completo. Le pagine bianche in fondo al volume sono applicate alle bellissime carte marmorizzate di sguardia. Bellissime legature coeve in piena pelle marmorizzata con titolo, numero del volume e ricchissimi fregi in oro al dorso. Qualche lieve difetto. Una leggerissima brunitura al margine esterno bianco delle prime due carte del quarto volume. Tagli rossi. Testatine, finalini ed iniziali ornate. Nuova edizione rara (come tutte le edizioni precedenti) di questa celeberrima traduzione del celebre letterato ed orientalista francese, figlio dell’interprete arabo alla corte di Francia e a sua volta interprete ufficiale della corona, François Petis de la Croix (1653-1713). Inviato per formarsi da Colbert in giovane età in Siria, Persia e la Turchia venne a contatto con numeroso materiale letterario che poi avrebbe ripreso e studiato nel corso di tutta la vita. Dopo un periodo di studio ad Aleppo, arrivò nel 1674 a Isfahan, dove rimase fino al giugno del 1676. Da una breve descrizione di questo suo soggiorno si apprende del suo profondo interesse per i costumi dei “dervisci” tanto che si crede che de la Croix sia stato uno delle più importanti fonti sul “Sufismo” nell’Occidente del XVII° e XVIII° secolo. Fra lesue opere principali troviamo proprio questa raccolta di favole che molto deve al Sufismo. De la Croix sostenne che l’opera fosse la traduzione di un opera dal titolo persiano Hazar u yek Ruz (alla lettera “Le mille ed un giorno”), che l’orientalista acquisì da un’ Dervish Mocles ‘o’ Moklas ‘a Isfahan nel 1675. Non è chiaro quanto questo sia vero. Molti sostengono che la gran parte dei racconti è stato effettivamente inventato da Petis de la Croix stesso. Sicuramente all’epoca in cui l’opera venne pubblicata e per tutto il settecento, il clima di caccia alle streghe verso diverse forme di eresia e dottrine orientali, potrebbe aver suggerito a De la Croix di dare ad altri la paternità dell’opera. Il fatto che due altri grandi orientalisti Antoine Galland e Barthélemy d’Herbelot de Molainville che frequentavano De la Corix, non abbiano lascito nei loro scritti nessun riferimento importante alle pratiche del “Sufismo” può suggerire l’idea che nonostante l’argomento sia stato a più riprese trattato nei loro dialoghi, sia stato però ritenuto dagli orientalisti, troppo pericoloso da trattare in forma scritta. Effetivamente alcune pratiche del Sufismo conossciute e descritte da De la Croix erano simili ad alcune pratiche ritenute all’epoca come “stregoneria” e vivamente condannate dall’Inquisizione. Probabilmente de la Croix cercò di tramandare alcune delle conoscenze che aveva appreso in oriente in forma di racconto fantastico per non incorrere nella censura. Opera in ogni caso assai rara ed ancor più rara a trovarsi completa.
A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Second edition, 12mo, [4], 198pp., engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, 3 full-page wood-engraved, 1 illustration within the text, some offsetting from plates, a couple of gatherings standing proud, cont. calf, joints cracked, untitled spine with raised bands outlined in gilt, corners bumped, head and foot of spine chipped. "Philander, a rich gentleman, sick of dissipation and amusement, retires to the country to devote himself to benevolence, taking as his motto "Virtue alone is happiness below." Hen entertains each Monday six young gentlemen?Master Steady, Master Featherbrain, Master Speakwell, etc.?and each Thursday six young ladies?Miss Allgood, Miss Prattle, Miss Haughty, etc. After one of them has told a story or recited a poem, the remainder of the visit is devoted to the study of the sciences in which each pupil speaks his piece in nauseating sententiousness interlarded with piety."?NBL. Provenance: Early ownership signature of Ann & Elizabeth Harrison on front paste-down. Roscoe, J12; NBL 446; First published in 1769, both edition are rare, ESTC locating four copies of the first (L, O; CLU-S/C, CtY-BR) and five of this second edition (L, O, LEu; CaOHM, CLU-S/C).
Front free endpaper almost loose. Titles all underlined in red on title page. Joints of spine both cracked.. Wear to extremities and surfaces of covers.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with gilt rosettes, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt lozenge, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Includes recollections of the Pahang Disturbances of December 1890 - September 1891, and the expeditions into the 'Benighted Lands' of 1894 and 1895. VERY SCARCE
Two Volumes. With 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates "Drawn by H. Repton. Engraved by Stadler.", title vignettes signed "H. Repton inv. & delin. H. R.Cook sculpsit." Offsetting. Plates age stained especially on verso. Decorated title pages. 185mm. Disbound. Early inked ownership of E.W. Spangler in both volumes and scratched out ownership on title pages. Edward Webster Spangler. (1846-1907) was from York, PA. During the Civil War he was a member of Company K, 130th Regiment PA Volunteers, Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. After the War he was a lawyer in York for more than 40 years, president of the Spangler Manufacturing Company, and for a time publisher of the York Daily (Record). .Humphry Repton (1752-1818) was a great English landscape designer, and illustrator. These 'Odd Whims' were dedicated to his neighbour William Windham of Felbrigg Hall. Repton served as Windham's confidential secretary during Windham's very brief stint as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 5
Huge book: 15" w x 22" h, in Near Fine condition with a bumped lower back corner, small tear at front lower corner, small impact mark at bottom spine with very small tear, some light scuffing. Otherwise Fine. Contents include: stories from Weird Fantasy #12, 13, 17; Weird Science #13, (two stories) 16, 18, 22, Weird Science-Fantasy, #23, 24,, 27 with three previously unpublished works from Spawn of Venus, one a "splash page pencil rough." Shock and War Stories (pp. 98 -- 133): Shock Suspenstories, Frontline Combat, #15, Two-Fisted Tales #13, 33, 34, 41, with (13) full page cover art prints from other editions of the above publications. 152 pages. This is a very large object and will require special shipping to be arranged by seller at time of purchase.
2 tomes reliés en un volume in-12, plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièce de titre de maroquin bordeaux, tranches rouges, (2) f., iv, 117 p. et (1) f., 140 p., portrait frontispice et 5 figures hors texte. Edition bien complète de la seconde partie, ensemble traduit de l'espagnol par l'abbé Jean Antoine de Charnes, revue pour le style par George de Backer. Elle est illustrée d'un portrait frontispice, de deux titres gravés et de 5 figures non signées imprimées sur papier fort. Les pages de titre sont encadrées d'un important motif architectural et illustrées d'une grande vignette sur bois. Les vignettes et figures ont un caractère bizarre, voire fantastique. La préface annonce une nouvelle traduction établie "avec soin" sur le "véritable original espagnol", préservant également les intitulés. Pour plusieurs siècles, cette édition demeurera la version française de référence du premier et de l’un des meilleurs romans du genre picaresque, fondateur du genre. Cette édition est rare. WorldCat ne recense que 5 exemplaires dans le monde. Elle manque à la BnF et à l'ensemble des bibliothèques françaises en ligne (CCFr). (France littéraire, IV, p. 168. Palau y Dulcet (2ª edición), n°133483). La page de faux-titre du premier volume est placée en tête du second. Quelques piqûres éparses. Bel exemplaire, bien relié à l'époque.
Paris, Editions du rameau d'or, Paul Cotinaud sans date, vers 1960. 2 volumes petits in-4 carré en feuillets, sous couvertures illustrées à rabats et double étui avec vignettes de titre. 232 pages + 232 pages. 130 illustrations de Henry Lemarié reproduites en couleurs au pochoir par Maurice Beaufumé. Texte encadré de vert. Tirage limité numéroté à 950 exemplaires, celui-ci portant le n° 76 sur vélin d'arches à la forme. Très bon état.
436 pages. Index. Archival black and white illustrations. Hand-numbered copy number 346 of 1000. Author's signature upon bookplate inside front board. Fold-out map inside back board. "A collection of stories and historical events connected with the most northwest county in the United States - Whatcom County, Washington; and depicting in popular style, the pioneer days of the formative years between 1848 and 1895." - from title page. Relatively few library markings. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Small dab of liquid paper upon opening blank leaf. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article on this topic; Photo of tourist party in Solomon's Quarry, the world's most ancient quarry; My South African Adventures - part 1 of Jack West's incredible recollections, including photo of him aged 17; Ship Built By One Man - Liberian missionary, the Rev. James E. Lewis - photo-illustrated article of him, his wife and "The Coloured Missionary Yacht"; John A. Jordan and his African Leopard-Hunting Adventures; Our Trip to Catch Murderers - the rough and ready methods of achieving justice in Bolivia; An Exciting Night Drive - 35 miles in a South African Cape Cart; Relief Workers' Adventures - part 2 of this superb photo-illustrated article on thrilling experiences among the War Victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; With a Caravan in Corsica - photo illustrated article which relates the primitive life of the people; A Mountain of Gold - photo-illustrated article about the discovery made by the Fisk Expedition - Captain James L. Fisk and Dr. William Denton Dibb; In the Wilds of Siberia - part 2 - fascinating article with great photos document the explorations of Harry Somerset-Lister; The Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - part 4 - Exploring New York - article with nice photos and fascinating observations of the people; A Butterfly Farm in France - French Entomologist M. Andre's farm near Macon - article with photos; Fascinating photo of flume in British Columbia, by which logs are carried to the sawmills; Photo of amber mine on the coast of Samland in the eastern Prussian peninsula. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings and loss at each end of backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this marvelous issue. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: My Tiger-Hunting Adventures in India; Adventures of Newspaper-Man, Frederic Martyn (part 2); Canada's New Wonderland - new railway in the neighbourhood of the Yellowhead Pass runs from Edmonton to Prince Rupert - article with great photos; The Raid - author brings down a Gotha; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part 4 - major article of times spent in China with many fascinating photos, including a 3-year-old couple engaged to be married!; Choking An Alligator; In a Cauldron of Fire; Lost in a Limestone Cave; Treed by a Leopard - a missionary's story of a Chinese farmer's terrible predicament; Through Holland in a Canal Boat - article with lovely photos; The Winter Tragedy of the Yellowstone - Corporal Thomas M. Connery recounts the life of the Yellowstone Mounted Police and the nerve-wracking, monotonous life of the winter guard, which led to a terrible tragedy; Photo of the smallest boot in the world; The Catching of "Black Abyss" - involves Australian horseman Harry Pitt; The Fatal Curve - rail coach goes down an embankment; A Fateful Night - adventures in the west - where revolvers settled disputes and vigilance committees made quick work of trials; My Experiences in the "Black Republic' - wild tales from Haiti (Hayti) "where complete savagery has been permitted until even recent years; My Adventures with African Wild Dogs - savage and cunning creatures of which little is known; The Bushranger - adventures involving a crook in the Australian goldfields; The "Water Trees" of the Soudan - the amazing Tebeldi tree - article with photos; Photo of large fruit tree being gassed beneath a large canvas to kill pests; Interesting back cover ad for Haywood's Tire Surgery features illustrations of Richard A. Oldham of Illinois and E.T. Buchmann of Chicago. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
44 pages. First issue in the new and enlarged form. Features: The United States Versus The American Indian; The Cliff-Dweller Housekeeper - Home life of a people who may have been extinct before Columbus arrived; Tales From the House in the Valley - A revival of romance, superstitions and tragedies of the Southwest's lonely wastes; Beat Against Me No Longer - A Chippewa Love Song; The Indian and the Horse - Interesting facts about the origin of the horse in North America, and the manner in which the wild herds bred from the horses of Coronado and De Soto were utilized by the American Indian; The Southwest Through the Lens of an Ethnographic Photographer - First of a series of studies by Frederick Monsen; The Indian Knoll - Evidence unearthed from the site of an ancient Indian village; Thomas L. Sloan - American Indian; Honorable Charles Curtis - American Indian Senator from Kansas; Stetson ad on back cover. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white illustrations and photos. Above-average wear to covers which are loose but present. Name on front cover, otherwise unmarked. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
846 pages. The story of those people who at one time or another lived in Sintaluta and its districts, thereby contributing to its history from the early days to the present. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Very large multi-page fold-out at page 116 documents tombstones in the Sintaluta cemetery. This fold out bears a closed tear and handwritten instructions for how to open it. No other markings. Light wear overall. Illustrated red boards. Half-inch notch to back edge of spine three inches from foot of spine. A quality copy. Book
Very Good German Contemporary black cloth bdg. Original covers in binding. 4to. (27,5 x 20 cm). In German. 173-224 pp. Ownership signature on colophon, some underlined sentences, and markings. Otherwise a good copy. Exceedingly rare separatum of collected and compiled 27 Laz (Lazuri) fairy and folk tales around Rize area of Turkey as well as an introduction and short information on folklorists of Lazistan by Finger. From introduction: "Die nachstehenden Märchen wurden von mir im Jahre 1934 in der kleinen Nahie Kurayiseb'a, etwa 80 km landeinwarts von Rize am Kalopotamos gelegen, aufgezeichnet. Der kleine Han, der wir dort durch etwa 14 Tage bewohnten, war abends Treffpunkt der Jugend des Ortes, und die Märchen wurden mir im Austausch gegen deutsche Sagen und Märchen, die ich erzahlte, mitgeteilt." [i.e. The following fairy tales were recorded by me in 1934 in the small town Kurayiseb'a, about 80 km inland from Rize on the Kalopotamos. Little Han, which we lived there for about 14 days, was the evening meeting place for the local youth, and the fairy tales were given to me in exchange for German sagas and fairy tales that I told]. Josef (Sepp) Finger studied at the Handelsakademie and was employed from 1919 in a Vienna bank. In 1926 he emigrated to Turkey, living in Ankara and Constantinople (Istanbul), traveling around Asia Minor, and working for the Deutsche Orientbank. From 1927 he worked at the Austrian legation in Turkey and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Istanbul and he also organized a zoological study trip through Anatolia. He returned to Vienna at the end of 1934 and was employed by the Österreichisches Verkehrsbüro. After the annexation of Austria, he was employed initially at the Feinstahlwerke in Traisen, Lower Austria, and then as an export manager in Vienna. Finger, who spoke Turkish and several European languages, was employed in 1939 as an interpreter in the Vienna Gestapo censorship department and also joined the SS Security Service (SD) that year. He attended the SS leadership school in Fulda in 1941 and was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer. In 1943/44 he published extensive travel reports, particularly about Turkey, in the Völkischer Beobachter. Until September 1944 he worked in the press censorship department of the Vienna Gestapo and later in Department (Amt) IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He moved to the anti-Communist Department (Amt) VI in February 1945. His last posting was in the special department for combating Austrian resistance. From February 1946 to July 1947 he was detained in the Marcus W. Orr US internment camp in Glasenbach near Salzburg. He said nothing there or during registration as a Nazi about his career in the Gestapo and ultimately lived under a false identity in the Saalfelden area. In 1947 he was transferred to the prison of the Landesgericht für Strafsachen (provincial court for criminal matters) in Vienna, and Volksgericht proceedings were instituted against him under §§ 8, 10, and 11 of the Prohibition Act (registration fraud, illegality, and qualified illegality). Finger claimed that he had been sent to the Gestapo by the employment department and had been used there merely for "subordinate activities". In 1949 the public prosecutor's office in Vienna dropped the case. On several occasions between 1935 and 1944, Finger had given or sold the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology, now Weltmuseum Wien) objects from the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Persia, and the Middle East. The objects were not identified as having been expropriated by the Nazis, and it is most likely that Finger acquired them during his long sojourns abroad. The Art Restitution Advisory Board took note of a report on the ethnographic items in the Weltmuseum from Finger on 30 November 2012 and a dossier on textiles in the MAK on 26 September 2014. (Lexikon Provenienzforschung online). Only one copy in OCLC: 560570599 (The British Library, St. Pancras of London).
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original pictorial boards printed in red and black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. Cahill 24 , variant A (with Bedford St address and picture in black).
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects the whole of Lawrence's shorter fiction from 'The Prussian Officer' (1914) to 'The Man who Died' (1931). The stories are printed in chronological sequence. A lovely copy. Roberts, A67.
2 tomes reliés en un volume in-12 (166 x 97 mm), maroquin grenat de l'époque, dos lisse orné de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, plats encadrés de triples filets dorés garnis d'un petit fleuron d'angle, roulette sur les coupes et les chasses, (8), 288 p. et (4), 332 p., 2 vignettes de titre gravées. Edition publiée l'année de l'originale, la troisième, conforme à la description donnée par Adams. Exemplaire sans les planches. La première oeuvre romanesque de Diderot. Dans ce roman libertin et "philosophique", Louis XV sous les traits du sultan Mangogul du Congo, reçoit du génie Cucufa un anneau magique qui possède le pouvoir de faire parler les parties génitales ("bijoux") des femmes... Diderot regardait son oeuvre comme une sottise de jeunesse qu’il souhaitait réparer par "la perte d’un doigt", selon le témoignage de Naigeon. (Adams, BI3. Cohen, 303). Petite étiquette ancienne de la librairie Méquignon-Junior. Restauration aux mors. Pièces de titre renouvelées. Bon exemplaire, relié en maroquin.
