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Roberts, A.
The adventures of (Mr T. S.) an English merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Algiers, and carried into the inland countries of Africa: with a description of the kingdom of Algiers, of all the towns and places of note thereabouts. Whereunto is added a relation of the chief commodities of the countrey, and of the actions and manners of the people. Written first by the author, and fitted for the publick view by A. Roberts. London, (William Wilson and) Moses Pitt, 1670.
Small 8vo. (8), 252 [but 254], (2) pp. (includes final leaf of ads). Contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition of this extraordinary account of an Englishman’s capture by Barbary pirates and subsequent adventures as a slave in Algeria. The narrative is framed as an authentic journal of a deceased traveller, prepared for the press by a friend of the departed. Through this mechanism the reader is taken into a proto-novelistic fantasy, albeit one that must have been informed by genuine experience of Eastern travel. As a slave under numerous masters the author tricks his way variously into employment as the cook to the King of Algiers, is then demoted to Keeper of the King’s Bath and secretly fathers a daughter with one of the King’s wives. After an unsuccessful stint as a gardener’s assistant he journeys in the service of an officer, collecting tribute money with the Algerian army and offers his services as an advisor to the Ottoman governor of Tlemcen. He recounts observations on the various peoples encountered and their customs and peculiarities, marvelling at flying serpents, lions and ostriches and skirmishing with an army of Arabs. Against a backdrop of mosques, minarets and palaces, the narrative is peppered with anecdotes of meetings with Barbary pirates, European renegados, and dalliances with alluring women of the Maghreb. - The author takes particular relish in recounting the details of his sexual adventures: "the women in this country keep much at home, but their minds and affections are more wandering abroad, because they are so recluse; whereas if they had as much liberty as in other countries they would not be so furiously debauch’d: their husbands keep strict guard over them, that when they can escape their eyes, they give the reins to their passion, and labour to satisfy themselves more abundantly; stolen waters are sweet: the more they are forbidden and hindered from variety, the more pleasure and satisfaction they fancy in it [...] had my design been to make conquests in the Empire of Love, I think none could have been more happy [...] this good opinion of my ability spread & increased wonderfully in the town [...]". A separate appended section offers directions for navigating the Barbary coast. The work is of value both as a travel narrative and as a proto-novel reflecting the European fascination with the Orient. This is one of four journeys undertaken by Englishmen in the Ottoman Mediterranean analysed recently by Gerald Maclean in his 2004 study "The rise of Oriental travel: English visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720". - Provenance: small stamp of Bibliothèque Generale, Rabat, to title, first leaf of dedication, and first leaf of text. Small ownership stamp of Alexander Gardyne, 1883, to verso of title. Manuscript bookplate of Henry White, Lichfield, 1820, to pastedown. A very good copy. Playfair, Morocco, 244. Playfair, Algeria, 155. Pforzheimer, 846. Wing S152. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.
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Roberts, David / Croly, George / Brockedon, William.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London, Day & Son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856.
Large 8vo (300 x 220 mm). 6 vols. bound as 3. With 250 numbered plates (image size 120 x 170 to 150 x 220 mm), including a tinted lithographed portrait of the artist, 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, side-stitched and oversewn, then sewn on 5 recessed cords, with a hollow back, 5 false bands on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, combed and curled marbled endpapers, headbands in red and yellow, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate. Second edition, with reduced illustrations but with more of them double-tinted or chromolithographed, of one of the most splendid and historically important visual records of the Middle East, after drawings by David Roberts (1796-1864) from the sketches he made from life during his travels through what is now Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon in 1838 and 1839. In Egypt he ventured up the Nile as far as the Nubian temples at Abu Simbel, near the present border with Sudan and travelled by camel through the Sinai to the extraordinary carved-rock buildings of Petra. These had been unknown to Europeans until Burckhardt discovered them in 1812 and 1813, so Roberts's views are among the earliest and are in many ways better than the few predecessors. In Lebanon he ventured as far as Baalbek, which had seen few European visitors before Egypt annexed it in 1832. Other sites he visited and drew include Cairo, Suez, Gaza, Jerusalem and Beirut. He was one of the first Europeans allowed to make drawings of the interior of mosques, so even in well-known cities these too opened a new world to European eyes. His views also provide a very detailed visual record of many sites that were afterward destroyed or disturbed. He drew them during the infancy of photography, before it reached the Middle East and long before it reached maturity there. His views of the modern cities also preserve records of both their architecture and their daily life and he shows spectacular landscapes in the mountains, around the Dead Sea and along the Nile and the Jordan. Roberts, born to a poor (Welsh?) family in Edinburgh, was apprenticed as a house painter, moved to London and worked his way up to paint sets for the Drury Lane Theatre and others. Thanks to patrons who appreciated his talents and hard work he was able to make the expensive and dangerous voyage through the Middle East. George Croly (in volumes 1-3) and William Brockedon (in volumes 4-6) provided explanatory and historical notes on the sites shown in Roberts's views. - Roberts's views were originally published in two separate works, issued in parts in the years 1842 to 1849 and often found together. One centred on the Holy Land, though also including views in other parts of the Middle East, while the other was devoted to Egypt and Nubia. The views in the former were made with only a single tint block and even the latter used fewer tint blocks than the present second edition and only one chromolithograph. The present edition, with sometimes very intricate double tints and two chromolithographs (with black and three tint blocks) is a masterpiece of tinted lithography. Since the lithographers used photographic reductions of the lithographic views of the first edition as an aid to their work, the book also pioneered the use of photography in graphic reproduction. The lithographed title-pages are dated 1855 except for those of vol. 3 (from the simultaneous New York issue, undated) and 6 (1856) but volumes 2-6 include plates dated 1856. The dates of the plates in all six volumes range from 16 April 1855 to 15 December 1856. - The title-page of volume 3 was intended for the simultaneous New York issue, but appears to have always been part of the present copy. In very good condition, with occasional light foxing, mostly on the backs of the plates, and with a faint marginal water stain in the lower outside corner of many plates in volumes 3 and 4, not approaching the printed image. The inside front hinge of the second volume as bound has separated from the book block and the bindings show some wear at the hinges and extremities, but they are otherwise also very good. 250 mostly tinted and double-tinted lithographs providing stunning early views of the Middle East, including Petra, Abu Simbel and the interiors of several mosques. Abbey, Travel 388 (lacking vols. 5-6). Blackmer 1432 (note). Gay 25. Hiler 205. Cf. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 66 (1842-49 ed.); Lipperheide, Lc 12 & Ma 27 (1842-49 ed.); Tooley 401f. (1842-49 ed.); not in Colas.
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Roberts, David, Scottish painter (1796-1864).
Autograph letter signed. Fitzroy Street, [15 March 1849].
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. To his son-in-law Henry Bicknell, making arrangements to meet: "I have unfortunately accepted an invitation to dine with Lord Tenterden on Wednesday, had it been an other I would have endeavoured to get off - as it is I have done as you desired an pop'd Marochetti into the fire. With the exception of that and Saturday I am disengaged the rest of the week [...]". - In a postscript, he adds that "Turner called on Monday to say he would dine with you tomorrow having mistaken the day - he is to dine with your Governor [Henry Bicknell's father, the art collector Elhanan Bicknell] on Saturday". - Roberts enjoyed a close and warm relationship with his daughter and her husband, no doubt a compensation for his own unhappy marriage.
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Roberts, Frederick.
Egypt to Hedjaz and Hedjaz To-Day. (Cairo, 1931).
8vo. 36 ff., printed on rectos only. Original printed wrappers with oval portrait of the author in Arabic costume. Stapled. First edition, very rare. Extraordinary guide to the Kingdom of Hejaz, "the most frequented pilgrim country in the world" (f. 36). It comprises accounts of Jeddah and Mecca and includes a chapter on King Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud (1875-1953), "undoubtedly the strongest and ablest ruler Arabia has produced for many many years" (f. 29). - Describing the journey from Egypt across the Red Sea, the booklet discusses the travel documents required to enter Hejaz, as well as the enormous economic benefit of the pilgrimage to the Kingdom, and gives a report of the crossing from Suez to Jeddah including stops at El Tor, "the most attractive and beautiful of the Red Sea towns" (f. 11), Wedja and Yambo. It includes a description of the Mount Sinai monastery as well as the wrecked pilgrim ship "Asia", which caught fire in the Jeddah port in 1929. On the one hand deeming Jeddah "a place for work and no play" (p. 24), the guide laments the prohibition of alcohol, cigarettes and gramophones, as well as the lack of hotels, cafés, restaurants, cinemas, and fresh water, and criticises the general state of many houses in the city. On the other hand, the booklet admires the low crime rate of Hejaz as well as recent improvements in public transportation. An uncommonly frank account of a Westerner's stay in Hejaz, not hesitating to speak out on the hardships of pilgrimage. - Covers loosened; somewhat soiled. A few pages slightly wrinkled. Contemporary ownership inscribed to title-page in blue ballpoint. Not a single copy traceable in libraries worldwide.
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Roberts, James & Henry.
The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the Most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, Represented in Variety of Attitudes. Interspersed with Tail-Pieces & Embellishments Alluding to the Sport. Calculated for the Utility and Entertainment of the Nobility, Gentry, Breeders, &c. London, J. Barker, c. 1800.
8vo. Letterpress title page and 40 engr. plates by James and Henry Roberts, engr. index leaf, and publisher's 4-page catalogue (with woodcut image of cocks fighting). Stitched in wrappers. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he dies at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760, and this Barker edition some forty years later. This copy has no watermarks, but the books listed in J. Barker's catalogue of publications were mostly published in the 1790s. - Spine rubbed and bumped; slight wear to edges and corners. An excellent copy with two small tears imperceptibly restored. Of the utmost rarity: the only copy recorded at auction during the last decades is the Gloucester copy (Christie's, Jan. 27, 2006, lot 592). Huth, p. 38. Cf. Podeschi 54.
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Roberts, James.
The Sportsman’s pocket companion: being a striking likeness or portraiture of the most eminent race horses and stallions [...] drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts. London, printed for R. & R. Baldwin, c. 1760.
8vo (223 x 148 mm). 40 engraved plates, some with vignette at foot, engraved index leaf. Modern olive green morocco gilt by Eighton, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he died at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760. Rare, only two copies recorded in ABPC/AE Online. ESTC records two issues, one published and sold by Henry Roberts, the other printed for R. and R. Baldwin (as here): just one location is given for the first issue (Winterthur), and one for the second (BL). Huth records the work under a variant title, and also notes an 1820 edition. - Plate 12 shorter at margins, some spotting and browning, heavier at margins. A most handsome copy. Huth 38.
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Robertson, William.
[Binding title:] Egypt & Nubia. Cairo [and elsewhere in Egypt and Nubia], 1838-1839.
Double Crown folio (48 x 36.5 cm). [37] ff. including title-leaf and 7 blanks, plus 16 loosely inserted ff. Album containing 42 pencil and other drawings (a few partly coloured) and 3 squeezes, some on the album leaves and some loosely inserted, mostly of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, sculpture, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but also with a few botanical drawings and landscapes with buildings. Most have English-language captions in brown ink and are signed and dated 1838 to 1839. New black half morocco, on recessed cords, title and double fillets in gold on spine, using mid-19th-century marbled paper for the sides (blue-green Spanish-marble with black and white veins). An album of drawings (and squeezes of bas reliefs) made by William Robertson on a journey from Cairo in December 1838 down the Nile into Nubia, reaching as far south as the present-day Egyptian-Sudanese border region, including the temples of Abu Simbel, in January 1839, then returning via Philae, Karnak and other sites to Thebes in February 1839. They give very detailed views of numerous buildings, sculptures, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, as well as more distant views of landscapes with buildings and three botanical drawings. While Robertson made most of his drawings on site, he drew the Temple at Luxor after a drawing by Achille Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) who began exploring and drawing the ancient Egyptian sites in 1836 and published many of his drawings in 1847. The squeezes of bas-reliefs are of special interest, for they preserve a very precise record of the original with little influence from personal interpretation: the paper was wetted, pressed into the relief and allowed to dry. In addition to the three clear squeezes, a couple of the drawings also seem to have been made on flattened squeezes (some of those that survive as squeezes also have some lines drawn over them them). Since many of the ancient Egyptian sites have been looted and damaged over the years, these early drawings and squeezes provide an important record of what was there in 1838/39 and how it was situated, before the first photographs were made. The building of the old Aswan dam in 1902 caused frequent flooding and damage at the site of Philae, now an island, and most of its treasures were removed before completion of the new Aswan dam in 1970. The album has no true title-page, but the leaf before the first drawing has a slip pasted to it giving the name of the artist, dated from Cairo, December 1838. We have not identified the artist. The clergyman and historian William Robertson and his son of the same name died before 1838 and the archaeologist William Robertson Smith was not born until 1846. Thieme & Becker notes two artists named William Robertson, active two or three decades before and after the present drawings, but provides so little information that we cannot link them to either. He may possibly be the Irish-born London architect William Robertson (1770-1850), who took an early interest in Egyptian revival, but he would have been nearly seventy when these drawings were made. The loosely inserted drawings and squeezes are made on at least 8 different paper stocks, wove and laid, one of the wove stocks machine-made (the "watermark" left by the papermaking machine's belt seam appears in one sheet). A few of the original album leaves are now detached and may have been removed by the artist himself. The squeezes have inevitably been flattened in the album, but they still show the contours of the original bas-reliefs very clearly. One inserted drawing is severely foxed and one inserted floor plan is rather dirty, but in general the drawings are in very good condition. A detailed graphic record of ancient Egyptian art, architecture and hieroglyphic inscriptions, made before many of the worst depredations.
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Robinson, Arthur E.
The Mahmal of the Moslem Pilgrimage. [London], Royal Asiatic Society, 1931.
8vo. (117)-127, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. About the Mahmal, the closed rectangular pyramidal canopy taken along on camelback on Egyptian and Syrian pilgrimages to Mecca before Ibn Saud's conquest of the Hejaz in 1925 - a "very curious custom in Islam", the origin and purport of which the present essay undertakes to investigate. "It is very improbable that the Mahmal [...] will be seen in the Hejaz again [...] The Mahmal is heretical to Islam, and the Wahhabis [...] have declined to admit the Mahmal into the Hejaz" (p. 117). - Wrapper shows insignificant ruststains from staples, otherwise in perfect condition. OCLC 47931240. Not in Macro.
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ROBINSON/GRAHAM Lawrence/James.
GOLFER'S DIGEST. FIRST ANNIVERSARY DELIXE EDITION.
Profusamente ilustrado.
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Rodewald, Otto (1891 Schöningen bei Helmstedt - 1960 Hamburg)
Blick auf den Felsen von Karthago mit dem Leuchtturm in Sidi Bou Said (Tunsesien). Öl auf Lwd.
Um 1930. 50 x 63,5 cm.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 110628
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Rodi, Antonio.
Caratteri stranieri, raccolti, scritti ed incisi da Antonio Rodi nell' anno 1836. Milano, Pagani Litografia, 1836.
Oblong 4to (327 x 154 mm). Dedication leaf and 10 engraved leaves of alphabet specimens, lithographed throughout. In the publisher's original lithographed wrappers. Only edition of this collection of alphabet specimens, comprising Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic, Hebrew (in two versions), Greek, "Illyric", "Egyptian", "Saracen", and "Indian". The author dedicated his effort to Conte Livio Benvenuti Clavello. - Slightly browned and brownstained throughout. Contemporary ink ownership "Biagio G..." on dedication leaf. Rare; only two copies in Italian libraries (Biblioteca statale di Cremona & Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, Venice). ICCU VEA\0176272.
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Romano, Sergio
Desert storm : the Gulf War in colour
London: Greenhill. 1991. Ca. 60. 33x24,5cm. Zustand: Sehr Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; Untere Außenecken sind etwas bestoßen; Ppbd.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 490468 ISBN : 185367107
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Romieux, Osmond.
[Watercolour views of sea-coasts in New Caledonia and Peru]. [New Caledonia & Peru, 1855/60?].
21 album leaves with 1 drawing mounted on each recto. Album: full-sheet leaves (oblong folio, 395 x 525 mm); drawings: oblong folio and oblong 4to. An album with 21 watercolour drawings on paper with views of sea coasts from the shore (240 x 310 mm to 295 x 465 mm), one with a 22nd watercolour drawing on the back with a similar view, and one with about 15 human figure drawings in graphite pencil on the back. All bear the artist's stamp on the front (Lugt 3703) and 4 are signed or initialled by the artist. Richly gold- and blind-tooled green goatskin morocco, sewn on 3 recessed cords (not aligned with the six flat raised bands on the spine), each board with a blind-tooled inner oval frame of interlaced abstracted leaves and vines, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame of similar decoration (oval inside and rectangular outside), surrounded by 2 frames of thick-thin fillets, the front board with the owner's initials in textura capitals in the centre: "A.L.", signed at the foot of the spine, "A. Giroux & C:" (last recorded in 1856), white watered silk endleaves (the paste-down in the form of a doublure). The whole in a protective folder lined with thick leather, with green goatskin morocco where it wraps around the 2 short ends, and chemical-marbled paper sides (black papier croise d'Annonay: cf. Wolfe XXI, 1-3: France, 1830s-50s), with remains of a green cloth tie on the flap. A richly gold- and blind-tooled album (ca. 1850/56) containing 22 excellent and detailed watercolour views of rocky sea coasts, all or nearly all in New Caledonia and Peru (plus 1 graphite pencil drawing of about 15 human figures), the coastal views made from the shore. All were executed by Osmond Romieux (1826-1908), a leading amateur artist who made them during his tours of duty as a French naval officer. At least 18 have a pencil note on the back identifying the location: 15 "Nouvelle Caledonie", 2 "Pérou" (drawings 18, 20) and 2 "Callao" in Peru (drawings 17, 18). We have found no location indicated on drawings 3 (with views on both sides), 8 and 19 (with figure drawings on the back). Most of the drawings were made from the sea shore, looking out over both the sea and the nearby coasts, nearly all with rocky cliffs or outcroppings and some with trees or other plants. Many were made along bays or inlets where one can see the coast on both sides and the water in one view. Some show fortifications or other buildings, a few show boats in the water or on the shore and several show people on the shore, all or nearly all in European dress. Drawings 2, 8, 15 and 17 are signed or initialled by the artist. - No drawing in the album bears a date, but the album shows no signs of other items having been removed, so the drawings probably date from before or soon after the album was manufactured. The album leaves are made of wove paper with no watermark, but A. Giroux & Cie is not recorded after 1856 and the binding style suggests the album is not much older. Most of the drawings are made on thick wove paper with no visible watermarks and with a rough surface texture much like many of today's watercolour papers. Drawing 4 is on thinner and smoother wove paper with no watermark visible and drawings 9 and 11 are on laid paper watermarked (in the centre of a half-sheet): grapes on a crowned shield (20 grapes plus stem, rendered naturalistically, with grapes arranged in an irregular pattern rather than a honeycomb and sometimes overlapping), about 118 x 70 mm (chainlines 26 mm apart). Unfortunately, the watermark literature does not cover this period well, but the crown is in the general style of those used much earlier for a fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield, such as Heawood 1822. Drawings 20 and 21 may be on the same stock as 9 and 11 but show no watermark, though 20 was made in Peru and the others in New Caledonia. Drawings 9, 20, 21 and probably 3 and 19 are executed on oblong 4to leaves; at least most of the others are on oblong folio leaves. Drawing 13 may be backed with smoother wove paper. - Prosper Halvor Henri Oscar Romieux, who used the first name Osmond, joined the French navy at Rochefort (less the 30 km from his native La Rochelle) in 1841 and passed his exams at the École Navale in 1843. He made his first tour of duty in Polynesia during the Franco-Tahitian War (1844-47), at least from 1845 aboard the ship "La Virginie". We find no record of Romieux or the ship visiting New Caledonia during this period, although it is "only" 4500 km from Tahiti. Romieux must have shown artistic skill from early childhood, for already on this first tour he made excellent watercolour drawings, and he continued to make watercolour views around the world until he retired from duty in 1891. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1863 and later an officier. Other undated drawings also record him in New Caledonia and Peru (including Lima and Callao). He is documented in New Caledonia in 1880 and 1882, but the present drawings are unlikely to be that late, and we have found no date for his visit(s) to Peru. We have little record of Romieux's movements from 1848 to 1850, but if he left the South Pacific he soon returned, for he is recorded in Hong Kong in 1851 and the Philippines in 1852 (in 1851 he was an Enseigne on the ship "l'Algérie"). He must have left in 1852, however, for he is recorded in the Seychelles (in the Indian Ocean) in 1852 and Italy in 1853 and 1854. In this last year he was promoted to Lieutenant, but we have another gap in the records of his movements from that time to 1860. He may have made the present drawings during this period, for he set off for the Levant on the ship "Redoutable", apparently in or shortly before 1860, since he is regularly recorded in Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Algeria and Jerusalem from 1860 to 1864. He was promoted to Capitaine in 1867 and continued his travels, but since the present album was probably bound in or before 1856 we think it unlikely that he made the drawings after 1864. - Although the binding is signed by Giroux, the firm operated primarily as suppliers of artists' materials and Ramsden plausibly suggests that they "commissioned bindings by the best executants of the day". Alphonse Giroux established the firm by 1799, but his son Alphonse Gustave Giroux (1809-86) managed it from at least 1838 and the father died in 1848. - We have not identified the "A.L." who apparently acquired these watercolours and had the album made in the 1850s: Lugt lists several French collectors with those initials active at the time. One watercolour has a small corner torn off at the lower right, another is slightly frayed along the right edge and the one on thin wove paper is very slightly browned, but the watercolours are otherwise in very good condition. The binding may have been expertly rebacked, preserving the original backstrip, but so unobtrusively that one must wonder if the binding was originally made that way. It is further in very good condition and even the folder is olny slightly rubbed.A lovely and finely executed series of large watercolour drawings of the coasts of New Caledonia and Peru, probably made in the 1850s and mounted in a stunning gold- and blind-tooled contemporary album. For Romieux: Lugt 3703. For Giroux: Flety, Dictionnaire des relieurs francais p. 82; Ramsden, p. 94.
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Rooke, Henri.
Voyage sur les côtes de l'Arabie heureuse, sur la Mer Rouge et en Egypte. Contenant le récit d'un combat des Anglois avec M. de Suffrein, et leur expédition contre le Cap de Bonne-Espérance en 1781 [...] Traduit de l'Anglois, d'après la seconde édition. London, Royez, 1788.
8vo. (2), VI, 154 pp. (error in paging: pp. 153-154 misnumbered 152-153). Contemporary boards. First French translation, from the second English edition (first published in English in 1784): an account of a journey made from Yemen to the Red Sea and Egypt and on to Europe. Rooke's narrative commentary on the expedition despatched in 1781 with the object of capturing the Cape provides descriptions of Mecca, Jeddah, and Cairo. Includes extensive notes by the translator. - Slight brownstaining; slight flaw to spine, otherwise in good condition. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1936. Aboussouan 797. Gay 116. Mendelssohn IV, 78. OCLC 4669621. Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 181 (Paris, Agasse, 1788). Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
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Rose, Barbara; Haedrich, Marcel; Orrick, Richard; Aulenti, Gae
Vogue Magazine (US), May 1972 - Veruschka Photo Feature
180 pages. Features: Look Great, Feel Fit, Have Fun; Good Looks - in and out of fashion; Great this Summer - crisscross sun-backs, covered heads, white-bright whites, the new mix of batiks, separates at night; Look Sharp - the swing of stripes and plaids on the golf course, layers of separates, shirtdressing, the blue-jeans suit; Gala wedding in Spain - The marriage of Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco and Don Alfonso de Bourbon y Dampierre; Balenciago 1895-1972; Veruschka - the most beautiful woman in the world, by Richard Avedon; Beach Report - the new sund-dressing; Ruffles of a summer night - worn by Michelle Gilliam; All Summer in Town - the best-looing clothes you can wear; Olympic Summer - what to wear for the fun and games in Munich; Swimming Shape-up; Fitness routine with a Chinese slant; Who Wears what perfume - the fragrantly famous tell about smell; Beach Report - beauty tips for the new sun-dressing - what to do about your hair; your makeup - how to save your skin; Munich - the fun of it during the Olympics '72; Olympic trainers tell how to get in shape and stay that way for life; Ten-day diet to high energy, by Melva Weber; People are Talking About - Marlon Brando; How Auguste Rodin liberated women in art; Chanel - what she knew that you should know; What to know about the Munich Olympics '72; Italian lessons in living; Gae Aulenti Designs for Emilio Pucci; Horoscope for Audrey Hepburn; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Rosen, G[eorg].
Geschichte der Türkei von dem Siege der Reform im Jahre 1826 bis zum Pariser Tractat vom Jahre 1856. In zwei Theilen. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1866-1867.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. XII, 303, (1) pp. VIII, 262 pp., final blank. Contemporary hald cloth with handwritten spine label. First edition of this history of the Ottoman Empire between 1826 and 1856, by the Prussian orientalist and diplomat Rosen (1821-91). - From the library of the German diplomat Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (1875-1944), one of the conspirators against Hitler. From 1922 to 1931 Schulenburg served as German envoy to Iran. His handwritten ownership is dated "Tehran, 1928"; his bookplate is on the front pastedown. For his involvement in the tragically failed plot of 20 July 1944, Schulenburg was executed on November 10. - Well preserved copy.
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Rosen, Georg.
Elementa Persica. [Hikayat-i Parsi] id est narrationes Persicae. Berlin, Veith, 1843.
8vo. XIX, (1), 197, (3) pp. Contemporary blindstamped green cloth. First published edition. "A translation of Persian narratives from the posthumous papers of his half-brother, Friedrich Rosen, including a glossary and grammar of modern Farsi" (NDB). - The doctoral dissertation of the Prussian oriental scholar and diplomat G. Rosen (Ballhorn, 1820-91), who studied in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1844 he was a dragoman at the Prussian embassy in Constantinople before becoming Prussian consul in Jerusalem in 1853. From 1867 he served as German Consul General in Belgrade. - Some browning and brownstaining throughout due to paper stock. Binding a little rubbed with traces of a library label to spine. NDB XXII, 52.
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Rosen, Georg.
Elementa Persica. [Hikayat-i Parsi] id est narrationes Persicae. Berlin, Veith, 1843.
8vo. XIX, (1), 197, (3) pp. Modern orange cardboard binding with spine label clipped from original printed wrappers. First published edition. "A translation of Persian narratives from the posthumous papers of his half-brother, Friedrich Rosen, including a glossary and grammar of modern Farsi" (NDB). - The doctoral dissertation of the Prussian oriental scholar and diplomat G. Rosen (Ballhorn, 1820-91), who studied in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1844 he was a dragoman at the Prussian embassy in Constantinople before becoming Prussian consul in Jerusalem in 1853. From 1867 he served as German Consul General in Belgrade. - Some browning and brownstaining throughout due to paper stock. Noticeable wrinkling and edge defects as well as ink smudges to beginning and end. NDB XXII, 52.
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Rosenzweig-Schwannau, Vincenz Edler von.
Perlen persischer Dichtkunst auf den Faden deutscher Redekunst [...]. Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1876.
16 SS. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe. Gedenkgabe für die Besucher der Vorträge des orientalischen Museums. "Aus dem literarischen Nachlasse [Rosenzweig-Schwannaus] gesammelt und von der k. u. k. orientalischen Academie zum ehrenden Andenken an ihren ehemaligen Lehrer herausgegeben" (Untertitel). Umfasst 29 persische Gedichte von Dschelaleddin Rumi, Saadi, Hilali, Mirza Kassim, Scheich Atthar, Chakani, Dschami, Farjabiin u. a. in deutscher Fassung aus dem Nachlass des Orientalisten und Übersetzers Rosenzweig von Schwannau (1791-1865). - Einband leicht angestaubt; kleiner durchgehender Nadelstich. Zu Rosenzweig vgl. Wurzbach XXVII, 34ff.
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Ross, E[dward] Denison.
Islám. London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1927.
12mo. 79, (1) pp. Publisher's original orange printer wrappers (spine repaired). A pocket-sized introduction to Islam and the Muslim world; "its object is to brief a brief survey of the rise of the Arabian religion in the seventh century; of the conquests of the outer world by the newly converted Arabs; of the foundation of the Arab Caliphate, and of the subsequent establishment of non-Arab Islamic states" (Introductory Note). - The orientalist and linguist Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940) was the first director of the University of London’s School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS) from 1916 to 1937. - Published as Benn's Sixpenny Library, No. 19. Removed from the "Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Orients an der Universität München" with their stamp on the title-page and additional note "Sheikh, Bagdad" (dated 1928), with additional bibliographical information added at the end. OCLC 6130391.
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Rotella Bob
Il putt vincente è questione di testa
br. «Il drive si tira per fare spettacolo, il putt per guadagnarsi la pagnotta.» L'adagio è ben noto ai golfisti e lo è ancor più a Bob Rotella, autore dei bestseller Il golf non è il gioco della perfezione e Il golf è questione di fiducia. La maggior parte dei golfisti passa il proprio tempo a tentare di migliorare lo swing per aumentare la distanza. Rotella invece sposta la loro attenzione verso il putt, aspetto del gioco tanto cruciale quanto trascurato. I grandi campioni sono consapevoli dell'importanza del putt e sono disposti a qualunque sacrificio pur di dominarlo. Un dominio che comincia proprio dal capire l'atteggiamento necessario per migliorare con il putter in mano. Il putt vincente contiene decine di esercizi che cambieranno per sempre il vostro gioco sul green, oltre a molte storie vere di grandi del golf come Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Davis Love III e Tiger Woods, ed è ritenuto un punto di riferimento insostituibile del putt mentale per dilettanti e professionisti.
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Rotella Bob; Cullen Bob
Il golf non è il gioco della perfezione. La bibbia del gioco mentale
br. Nel golf vincere è soprattutto una questione di testa. Sul campo le insidie mentali sono infinite. Pensiamo al tee shot che annega nel laghetto; al ferro 7 parziale al green che resta corto; alle mani tremanti che sbagliano il putt da pochi centimetri. Sono tutti errori che nascono da un modo sbagliato di pensare, da un'abitudine che contrae lo swing e finisce per produrre proprio il colpo temuto, anziché quello giusto. Dare la colpa alla meccanica è tanto facile quanto inutile. Bob Rotella, il Doc, ci insegna a concentrarci su ciò che conta: il colpo, la routine, il bersaglio, ma anche la fiducia, il piano di gioco, l'atteggiamento in campo. Con parole semplici ed esempi tratti dalla pratica dei grandi giocatori, il libro formula una ricetta basata sull'accettazione dell'errore, unica via verso il buon risultato. Giocare bene a golf significa infatti imparare a fare il meglio possibile con lo swing che abbiamo. O, per citare Rotella, il miglior modo di pensare allo swing è non pensarci affatto. Campioni di tutte le epoche, da Ballesteros a McIlroy, si sono si sono scontrati con l'aspetto mentale del golf, spesso uscendone sconfitti. Fino all'incontro risolutore con il Doc.
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Rotella Bob; Cullen Bob
Il golf è il gioco della fiducia
ril. La fiducia, o "giocare con gli occhi" secondo la definizione di Bob Rotella, può fare differenza tra par e bogey, tra uno e tre putt, tra vittoria e sconfitta. Rotella aiuta il lettore a rivoluzionare la sua gestione del campo e il suo gioco mentale, analizzando episodi chiave della carriera di figure leggendarie del golf: dalle 17 vittorie (di cui undici consecutive) di Byron Nelson nel 1945 ai giri che hanno definito le carriere di Brad Faxon, Tom Kite e Davis Love III - momenti in cui la pressione è alle stelle e la fiducia è necessaria come non mai. Rotella porta il lettore in campo con il campione di turno ma soprattutto svela i segreti della sua mente nei momenti che contano.
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Rothschild, Maurice Edmond Charles de.
Voyage de M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905). Resultats scientifiques. Animaux articulés [...]. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1922.
Folio (ca. 280 x 365 mm). 3 vols. XVII, (3), 482 pp. (2), 483-1041, (2) pp. With 2 folding maps and illlustrations in the text. Vol. III (atlas): half-title and 100 engraved plates, 84 of which in original hand colour, with descriptions. Original printed wrappers; vol. III in contemporary half cloth. Stored in decorative full cloth slipcases. First edition. Signed presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the entomologist and carcinologist Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856-1944), who wrote the introduction to this elaborate entomological work: "A Monsieur le Professeur Bouvier, à qui je dois toute ma reconnaissance pour avoir mené à bonne fin cet important ouvrage faisant le plus grand honneur à sa haut compétence et à son grand dévouement à la sciene [...]". - Between the years of 1904 and 1905 Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957) led and financed a collecting expedition in East Africa, travelling from Djibouti, across Eritrea to Ethiopia and Kenya. The collected specimens were presented to the Paris Natural History Museum. A large number of entomologists, including Charles Rothschild (1877-1923), worked on the specimens, their descriptions - some in Latin - being published in the first two volumes. A total of 68 specimens were named 'rothschildi', although not all of them are today known by this name. The third volume, containing exquisite colour illustrations of the insects, occupied a similarly large number of artists. - Uncut. Bindings somewhat worn; interior crisp and clean. A very well preserved copy of this elaborate work. Rare: a single copy in auction records. BM (NH) VIII, 1096. Not in Nissen or Pankhurst.
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Roubaud, Jacques
Der verlorene letzte Ball. Jacques Roubaud. Aus dem Franz. von Elisabeth Edl / Salto.
Berlin : Wagenbach, 2009. 112 S. ; 21 cm. Illustr. Originalleinen.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1134951
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Rouchdy Bey, Turkish statesman.
Autograph Quotation signed ("Dr Rouchdy"). In French. No place or date.
Folio. 1 page. On uncut wove paper, bearing the Schoellers-Parole blind embossed seal, margins uncut. The original autograph contribution of Dr Rouchdy Bey to the Committee of the World League for Peace (Ligue Mondiale pour la Paix), a remarkable organization formed in 1925 with close ties to the League of Nations. The Committee itself was composed of such notaries as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, King Carol II of Romania, John D Rockefeller, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein, who personally gathered the present manuscripts over the course of seven years (1925-32). Among the public figures who contributed to the project were dignitaries from the newly-created League of Nations' member states. "I cannot conceive of any offensive war whose advantages could equal the benefits of peace for a nation which is independent and which has the possibility of developing itself in freedom. [Signed] Dr Rouchdy". Pax Mundi. Livre d'or de la paix. Enquete universelle de la Ligue mondiale pour la paix sous le haut patronage de son comite d'honneur avec l'approbation de la Societe des nations, du Bureau international du travail et de la Cour permanente de justice internationale. Geneve, Societe paxunis, 1932.
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Rouhani, Fuad, first Secretary General of OPEC (1907-2004).
Typescript letter. Tehran, 17. III. 1961.
4to. 4 pp. on 4 ff. On headed stationery. Draft of a letter to Mohammed Salman, the Oil Minister of Iraq, about the administration of Abadan port, claimed both by Iran and Iraq, reflecting his concern with achieving consent in political matters as well as matters of the oil industry: "The Port of Abadan lies incontestably within the jurisdiction of Iran, and when the Iranian Government takes steps to provide its own harbourmasters in that Port it is doing nothing else than exercising a normal function of administration within its own waters. The past history of this question, and the fact that the Port of Basra has supplied harbourmasters for the Port of Abadan for some time [...] could not possibly deprive Iran of its right as an independent State to exercise sover[e]ignty over its territory. And yet this is what the attitude of your Government towards this question involves [...] If we cannot remove a difference of this simple nature, in which Iran is so evidently in the right; if the Iranian people are to be told that Iraq wishes to prevent Iran from administering the Port of Abadan in the same manner as Iraq administers, for instance, the Port of Basra; if the surprising statement of General Shawi that this matter concerns not the Iranian State but the Oil Consortium (which is foreign to both of us) is to be represented as the serious view of your Government, then how can we hope ever to achieve that harmony and unity of views and effective position on matters of joint importance, for example in relation ot OPEC, which is the first condition of success in the difficult common tasks which lie ahead of us? [...]". - With several corrections; the header "private and confidential" deleted.
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Rouhani, Fuad.
Accords et contrats internationaux dans le domaine du pétrole. Paris, Institut Français du pétrole, 1963.
4to. 937-959, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Exceedingly rare paper on international agreements in the oil industry by Fuad Rouhani (1907-2004), the first Secretary General of OPEC. First presented in early 1962 at the United Nations petrol conference in New York, it discusses legal issues of the oil industry, especially adressing the problem of the uneven distribution of profits between oil companies and the countries in possession of the reservoirs: "On sait toutefois que ces dernières années les gouvernements des pays qui ont accordé des concessions ont acquis la conviction qu'il existe un écart trop grand entre les bénéfices que les compagnies retirent de l'indutrie qu'elles financent et les rentrées du pays qui possède les gisements" (p. 949). - Right edge slightly warped, otherwise very well preserved. Offprint from "Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole et Annales des combustibles liquides", vol. XVIII, no. 6. An English version is held at Pepperdine University Library in Malibu, California; no other copy traceable in libraries internationally.
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Rouire, Alphonse Marie Ferdinand.
La rivalité anglo-russe au XIXe siècle en Asie. Golfe persique, frontières de l'Inde. Paris, Armand Colin, 1908.
8vo. VIII, 298 pp., final blank leaf. Printed original wrappers. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to Madame Maratuech, from 1919 to 1925 the director of the girls' boarding school at Saint-Denis operated by the French League of Honour: "A madame Maratuech, Directrice des Etudes de la Maison d'éducation de La Légion d'Honneur de St. Denis. Hommage respectueux de l'auteur [...]". - Interesting assessment of the impact of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which regulated the spheres of influence over Afghanistan and Persia, with Britain controlling the entrance to the Gulf. It examines the growing influence of the British Empire in the Gulf region, particularly Bahrain, Kuwait and in Southern Arabia, before dealing with the geopolitics of Afghanistan, Tibet, and Persia, which was half under Russian and half under British influence. The work concludes with an analysis of the impact of the pact on both Muscat and Kuwait. Never translated into English; a Russian translation appeared in 1924. - Without the separately published lithographed map. Binding loosened; old adhesive tape in the gutter between front cover and flyleaf as well as to pp. 192f.; occasional small marginal flaws. OCLC 851237785.
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Roux, Daniel.
Album de l'arabisant ou recueil choisi d'autographes arabes. Suivis d'une transcription textuelle pour initier à la lecture des manuscrits [...]. Algiers, de Guende, 1856.
Oblong 4to. 48, 32, (2) pp. Original printed wrappers. A wide-ranging and painstakingly reproduced ensemble of Arabic handwriting specimens, lithographed throughout and entirely in Arabic save for the title and preface, which are in French. Comprises letters (part 1) as well as legal documents (part 2). Published as a manual and workbook for self-instruction in reading Arabic, this includes a section with the author's transcriptions in normalised Arabic script, headed by brief captions and synopses in French. Daniel Roux was "directeur de l'école arabe-française de la rue des Pyramides". - Preserved in the original printed wrappers. Very scarce. OCLC 458780296.
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Rowlands, David
Golfing : Britain's Best Courses
1st edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0861145038. 20174. eng
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Rowlinson, Mark & Allis, Peter
Stockport Golf Club : One Hundred Years 1905-2005
Stockport: Stockport Golf Club Ltd 1997. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 155pp. .The story of Stockport Golf Club the events playing the course at Torkington and the players and the winners. Well illustrated. Very scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 10 x 9.75 inches. Stockport Golf Club Ltd Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 017402
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Rowlinson, Mark & Allis, Peter
Stockport Golf Club : One Hundred Years 1905-2005
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 155pp. .The story of Stockport Golf Club, the events, playing the course at Torkington and the players and the winners. Well illustrated. Very scarce.
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Royal & Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews
Nouvelles règles de golf illustrées - 9e édition.
Flammarion. 1999. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 120 pages - exemplaire de bibliothèque, couverture plastifiée, étiquettes, tampons - nombreuses illustrations en couleurs dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 796.1-Sports divers
Referenz des Buchhändlers : RO20260317 ISBN : 2082011186
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ROYAL MONTREAL GOLF CLUB
The Royal Montreal Golf Club, 1873-1973, the Centennial of Golf in North America
Montreal Privately Printed 1973
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 31617
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Royal & Ancient Golf Club Of St Andrews
Traditions & Change
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0907186521.G ISBN : 0907186521 9780907186526
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Royal And Ancient Golf Club
British Open Golf Championship 1999 The
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1565547152.G ISBN : 1565547152 9781565547155
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Decisions on the Rules of Golf
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0600608948.G ISBN : 0600608948 9780600608943
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Decisions By The Rules Of Golf Committee Of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews 1909-1928
St Andrews Scotland: W C Henderson Very informative book on the rules of golf for this time period not dated but is revised edition circa 1930. Contains152 pages plus 18 page index all in clean condition just a few very small foxing spots to first and last couple of pages ink stamps of Muswell Hill Golf Club on front and rear endpapers NO dustwrapper outer boards are marked and spotted especially to spine which is a little darkened rubbed and worn to top and bottome of spine and slightly to corners. Still a presentable example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Revised Edition. Gold Embossed Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8 ¾ x 5½ Inches. Hardcover. W C Henderson Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008080
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Golf: A Celebration of 100 Years of the Rules of Play
Triumph Books IL 1997-04-01. hardcover. New. 9.00x0.80x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Triumph Books (IL) hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : DADAX1572432845 ISBN : 1572432845 9781572432840
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
The Open Championship: Carnoustie 2007
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1845132785.G ISBN : 1845132785 9781845132781
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
The Open Championship 2012
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1845138368.G ISBN : 1845138368 9781845138363
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ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB OF ST. ANDREWS
The Walker Cup The 31st Match for the Walker Cup. Sunningdale May 27/218 1987. Officla Programme. FINE COPY WITH SUPPLEMENTARY MAP
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. The supplementary folding map of the course is laid in. SCARCE.
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Royal Canadian Golf Association
The Rules of Golf As Approved by the Royal Canadian Golf Association and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Scotland and the United States Golf Association Effective January 1 1972 to December 31 1975
Toronto Ontario: The Royal Canadian Golf Association / R.C.G.A. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1972. Club-House Edition. Hardcover. 117 pages. Index. Eight page fold-out "Rules of Amateur Status" revised February 11 1972 affixed inside back board. Gift greetings atop first leaf otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear to original red cloth. A quality vintage copy.; Sm 4to . The Royal Canadian Golf Association / R.C.G.A. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 341j0814
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Royal Dutch Petroleum Company.
The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (N. V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij). 1890 / 16 June / 1950. Diamond Jubilee Book. The Hague, (Nijgh & Van Ditmar), 1950.
4to. 204, (4) pp. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations and a folding rear-pocket world map labelling the company's spheres of operation. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. Only edition. Anniversary publication of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company celebrating sixty years in the business. It discusses the company's history and activities illustrated with high-quality images of refineries in Texas, California and the Netherlands, as well as of oil tanks, gas stations, working personnel, and corporate office buildings. - Cancelled stamp of the Geological Paleontological Institute of the University of Basel to flyleaf and title-page. OCLC 186670326.
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ROYAL EASTBOURNE GOLF CLUB
The Royal Eastbourne Golf Club. Centenary Brochure. 1887 - 1987
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and trade advertisements throughout; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Includes a diagrammatic guide to playing the Royal Eastbourne.
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Royal Montreal Golf Club
Constitution and Rules for the Game of Golf as Played on Mount Royal Park Montreal: Approved and Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Royal Montreal Golf Club 20th February 1891 Classic Reprint
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0266840515.G ISBN : 0266840515 9780266840510
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Rozet, P. / Carette, E. / Hoefer, F. / Frank, L / Marcel, J.
Algérie. États Tripolitains. Tunis. Paris, Didot, 1850.
8vo. 4 parts in one volume. (4), 32, 347, (1), 128, 228, II, (2) pp. With 2 (instead of 1!) folding engraved maps and 16 (instead of 20) engraved plates; several wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine. Marbled endpapers. Published as vol. 58 of the series "L'univers". Discusses Algiers (by Rozet), Algeria (by Carette), Libya (by Hoefer), and Tunisia (by Frank). - Some foxing. With a folding map of Algeria not listed in the table of plates, but does not contain four plates on Tunisia there listed. The fine engravings show costumes, views (Constantine, Algiers, Belida, Oran), etc. OCLC 6985583.
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RUBENSTEIN, Lorne
A Season in Dornoch; Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands
8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; xi, 2342, [i] pp, illustrations from drwgs, maps and plans on endpapers. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped, light wear), discrete name on endpaper, else fine and clean in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Respected journalist and golf writer, the author describes his exploration of the countryside, the people, golfing in the area. Sean Connery, in the foreword, describes his stay in the same area, where he had filmed Goldfinger, and describes his own golf game.
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Rudy Matthew
Le Swing des champions : améliorez votre golf en observant la technique des plus grands joueurs, de Bobby Jones à Tiger Woods, de Jack Nicklaus à Ernie Els, de Ben Hogan à Phil Mickelson
Editions du Rocher Cartonné avec jaquette 2004 In-4 (29 x 22,3 cm), format à l'italienne, cartonné avec jaquette, 190 pages, photographies en couleurs ; très bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : xs1334
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