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1941ref. 41150London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press 1941. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 12". XVI 279 1pp Text 56 leaves Plates; 10pp Supplement. Original gilt-stamped olive cloth with gold lettering to spine. Title page with printed Chinese seal in red. A printed 10-page supplement published in 1941 laid in at rear. "The volume begins with an Introduction and a general description of the collection. These are followed by a description of each painting and the translation of its seals and inscriptions. At the end of the book is a chapter on seals their carving and use together with the photographic reproduction of 115 seals and a key with their translation and the identification of their owners and Biographical Notes on the painters commentators poets and seal-owners connected with the paintings. There are also an Index of Chinese names words terms and seals with their Chinese characters and English Indexes of proper names seals in translation and miscellanea covering such subjects as calligraphy its styles and use as an art form; discussion of paper and silk and of signatures; duties of officials legends and stories connected with the paintings; paintings ancestral animals birds flowers and plants religious subjects and their use on special occasions and for special purposes symbols and symbolism; technique brush strokes materials used and preparation of and methods used for Buddhist paintings buildings flowers etc and by individual painters" from the publishers. Of the 56 collotype plates featured in this work 48 deal with paintings and are composed of 36 full-page monochrome plates 3 full-page color plates 7 manifold monochrome plates and 2 manifold color plates. The remaining plates are composed of 5 full-page plates of calligraphy and 3 full-page plates of seals. The paintings in the collection date from pre-T'ang times to the Ch'ing Dynasty some of them among the greatest Chinese paintings known. Among them are the great landscape by Hsia Küei and such recorded paintings as "An Assembly of Birds on a Willow Bank" attributed to Huang Ch'üan; "Snow River and Returning Boat" by Emperor Hui Tsung; "An Orchid in Autumn" by Chêng Ssu-hsiao; "Mountains and Water" by Mi Fei; "A White Prunus in Blossom" by Wang Mien etc. Minor to moderate shelf wear. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Oxford University Press hardcover
1714ref. 39159A Bourdeaux ie. The Hague: James L'Aveugle 1714. First Edition. 12mo pp. viii 508. Bound in contemporary calf neatly rebacked in antique style little rubbed some minor foxing soiling a very good tight copy. Rosenberg "A" Gove 217-219; Cioranescu 62587; Barbier IV 1103; Atkinson 'The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature' p. 70; Rosenberg pp. 84-5. The genuine first edition falsely dated. An important imaginary journey to Australia called a "landmark" by Atkinson. Based on a variety of real voyages the descriptions are believable and realistic. The author offers a detailed account of making a camp building a raft. While the book did not range much beyond the confines of the traditional Utopias of the times it did however include "living fossils" giant birds and strange flora that survived from prehistoric eras arguably making it one of the first modern Lost World novels. After being shipwrecked on the continent the narrator and a friend pressed on and developed a farm in "a plentiful fruitful country" until forced to flee by a treacherous woman. Tyssot de Patot 1655-1727 was a Huguenot who lived most of his life in Holland where he pursued a career as professor of Mathematics at the Athenaeum Illustre in Deventer the capital of the province of Overijssel. James L'Aveugle unknown books
1644ref. 59351Hagae-Comitis: I. Burchornius 1644. New edition. 12mo 191. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with marble end papers rubbed along the hinges slight losses to ther spine lacks the leather label little toning to the title page but genrally a very clean tight copy. Erdman page 183; Graesse vol. 2 p. 409.; Brunet IV 81.; Alle The Concept of Women Vol. 3 pp 164-66. . The "Disputatio" was first issued under the title: "Disputatio nova contra mulieres. It was a satire on the Socinian method of argument. Acidalius 1567-1595 German scholar and critic born in Brandenburg who embraced Catholicism and was much esteemed for his Roman commentaries comments on the religious group of Sociniens who asserted that women are not men ie. thinking and reasonable beings. Gedik responded that if women were as noted by Acidalius then they would not be humans! All of these books were first issued in the 16th century. Erdmann mentions just the one of them. I. Burchornius unknown books
1941ref. 41150London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press 1941. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 12". XVI 279 1pp Text 56 leaves Plates; 10pp Supplement. Original gilt-stamped olive cloth with gold lettering to spine. Title page with printed Chinese seal in red. A printed 10-page supplement published in 1941 laid in at rear. "The volume begins with an Introduction and a general description of the collection. These are followed by a description of each painting and the translation of its seals and inscriptions. At the end of the book is a chapter on seals their carving and use together with the photographic reproduction of 115 seals and a key with their translation and the identification of their owners and Biographical Notes on the painters commentators poets and seal-owners connected with the paintings. There are also an Index of Chinese names words terms and seals with their Chinese characters and English Indexes of proper names seals in translation and miscellanea covering such subjects as calligraphy its styles and use as an art form; discussion of paper and silk and of signatures; duties of officials legends and stories connected with the paintings; paintings ancestral animals birds flowers and plants religious subjects and their use on special occasions and for special purposes symbols and symbolism; technique brush strokes materials used and preparation of and methods used for Buddhist paintings buildings flowers etc and by individual painters" from the publishers. Of the 56 collotype plates featured in this work 48 deal with paintings and are composed of 36 full-page monochrome plates 3 full-page color plates 7 manifold monochrome plates and 2 manifold color plates. The remaining plates are composed of 5 full-page plates of calligraphy and 3 full-page plates of seals. The paintings in the collection date from pre-T'ang times to the Ch'ing Dynasty some of them among the greatest Chinese paintings known. Among them are the great landscape by Hsia Küei and such recorded paintings as "An Assembly of Birds on a Willow Bank" attributed to Huang Ch'üan; "Snow River and Returning Boat" by Emperor Hui Tsung; "An Orchid in Autumn" by Chêng Ssu-hsiao; "Mountains and Water" by Mi Fei; "A White Prunus in Blossom" by Wang Mien etc. Minor to moderate shelf wear. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2022ref. x-0190245115Oxford Univ Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 2832 pages. 18.10x13.30x11.70 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
ref. 107139Luzern Faksimile-Vlg. 1991. Kl.8° 170 x 13 cm. Faks.: 219 S. 70 wunderbare Miniaturen. Kommentarbd.: 430 S. 45 Taf. Faks: Roter Samt; Kommetarbd. Samt m Rückenschild. in Plexischuber. Tadell. Nr. 335 von 980 Exemplaren.- Das Blumenstundenbuch entstanden zwischen 1520 u. 1525 ist ein Höhepunkt der flämischen Buchmalerei. Bei diesem prächtigen Stundenbuch des berühmten Buchmalers Simon Bening 1483-1561 handelt es sich um den Höhepunkt flämischer Buchmalerei. Zwei Besonderheiten heben dieses Meisterwerk unter allen Stundenbüchern hervor. Zum einen das lockere Streumuster von Blumen oder Vögeln das jede Textseite ziert zum anderen die vielen unterschiedlichen Formen der Seitengestaltung innerhalb einer Handschrift. Deshalb gilt dieses Werk in seiner Gestaltungsvielfalt als unübertroffener Höhepunkt seiner Zeit. 010 Luzern, Faksimile-Vlg., 1991 unknown
ref. 53668London printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn J. Hildyard at York M. Bryson at Newcastle and J. Leake at Bath MDCCXLVI 1746. TITLE CONTINUED: In which I: The advantages and disadvantages attending the use of these commodities are not only impartially considered upon the principles of medicine and chymistry but also ascertained by observation and experience. II: Full and distinct directions laid down for knowing in what cases and for what particular constitutions these substances are either beneficial or hurtful. III: The Chinese or Asiatic tea shewn to be the same with the European Chamelaeagnus or Myrtus Brabantica. The whole illustrated with copper plates exhibiting the tea utensils of the Chinese and Persians. And now translated by Dr. James. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1746 8vo approximately 200 x 120 mm 8 x 5 inches 2 folding engraved plates showing coffee and tea making apparatus. Pages: 4 1-171 1 - advert for books by R. James M.D. half-title present rebound in modern half calf over marbled boards gilt lettered green label between raised bands gilt and blind decorations to spine new black and cream endpapers. Pale age-browning throughout and occasional minor brown spot or small stain a good copy. See: William R. Cagle A Matter of Taste A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink in The Lilly Library Indiana University page 661 No. 918; Virginia Maclean A Short-title Catalogue of Household and Cookery Books in the English Tongue 1701-1800 pages 110-112; G. Vicaire Bibliographie Gastronomique page 667; A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library Volume 4 page 318. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured. London, printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn, J. Hildyard at York, M. Bryson at Newcastle, and J. Leake at Bath, MDCCXLVI [1746] hardcover
1898ref. 92384à Paris: MaradanGueffier jeune 1898. Fine. Maradan Gueffier jeune à Paris An VI 1898 18.7 x 25 cm relié Second edition and first edition printed in Paris; the first edition was published in St Petersburg in 1795. Contemporary half tan sheep over boards with small vellum corners smooth spine slightly darkened and ruled in gilt tan sheep lettering-piece speckled edges bookplate pasted to one pastedown. A few restorations to spine pale staining around the bookplate and on the facing page occasional minor foxing. This work consists of an extract from the journal of the author's extensive journey through the ""southern governments of the Russian Empire"" in 1793 and 1794 more specifically from the second part devoted to the description of Crimea. Provenance : from the library of the Château de Menneval with its bookplate pasted to one pastedown. Â MaradanGueffier jeune hardcover
ref. BIOMEM/Box14/RS8/061125-RJun 01 2010. Very Good. PAGES ARE CLEAN AND THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. Sold by the U.K Charity Kisharon Langdon. Offering Opportunities and Support for People within the Autism and Learning Disability Community. unknown
1717ref. 3201143Bordeaux" actually Rouen: chez Jacques l'Aveugle 1717. Extremities slightly rubbed rebacked corners reinforced a very good copy. Duodecimo with woodcut device on title; original sprinkled calf binding. First edition Rosenberg edition 'A' of this important imaginary voyage to Australia: a "landmark" in the development of the French voyage novel Atkinson. Friederich comments that the importance of mining and irrigation to the Australians makes it the only work "to foreshadow what has actually come to pass in modern Australia". This is an attractive copy of this precursor to Defoe set on the Australian continent among people obsessed with mining and the problems of irrigation: "the detailed account of the adventurer's camp in the Austral continent the building of a raft and the descriptions of plants and trees may be compared favourably to similar passages in Robinson Crusoe." Atkinson. The author Tyssot de Patot was a remarkable figure an English-born Huguenot and self-taught philosopher with a background in mathematics who at the impressive age of 72 suddenly scandalized his Dutch community and was run out of town as a dangerous heretic. He wrote two wonderfully inventive imaginary voyages both well ahead of their time: one was an account of a journey deep underground into a hollow earth while the present work tells the story of a veteran sailor called Jacques Massé who shipwrecks in the far southern reaches of the Indian Ocean not far from what is now Kerguelen Island. Delighted with the new world he discovers Massé denounces his European heritage only to be betrayed and have to flee to the coast where he is besieged for 12 years before being finally rescued by a Portuguese ship. The work was a modest bestseller of the era and the question of editions has been thoroughly investigated by Aubrey Rosenberg no small task given that all four major editions are dated 1710 on the title-page. Rosenberg argues that this edition 'A' in his list with an armillary sphere device on the title with its base pointing to the left was probably published between 1714 and 1717 and is the true first edition of the work. As Rosenberg points out this series of editions dispels the notion that interest in Tyssot quickly died out: in fact the staggered publications argue a sustained interest in the work throughout the eighteenth century. Tyssot de Patot's writings were a continual source of scandal: Voltaire thought that he had "carried the torch of discord into their homeland". Certainly the antagonistically anti-religious stance of this novel created much ill-feeling. Atkinson comments that because "open criticism of the Bible is so frequent" he will have to content himself with listing just a few of the more extreme examples. Nonetheless Atkinson's positive summary gives a good sense of the importance of the work: "a close following of accounts of real travellers such as Dellon Tavernier Mocquet and Lahontan. There is nothing fantastic unbelievable or overdrawn in the descriptions of the Austral continent.". The story has Massé shipwrecking on the Southern continent at "44 South latitude almost at the point where Kerguelen Island will be found to be on modern maps" Atkinson. Whilst most of the survivors of the wreck are content to maintain a large presence on the coast Massé and his friend Moret travel inland where they settle in an enormous and well-organised utopia "a plentiful fruitful country a land of blessing and peace . where human blood is sacred and safe from the rage and tyranny of great men". They become so enamoured of their Australian hosts that they abjure their faith and their European heritage and it is only when Moret is betrayed by his liaison with a treacherous queen that they reluctantly flee escaping rather fortuitously by a subterranean river which deposits them close by the original settlement. They remain besieged in the camp for another twelve years before they are finally picked up by a Portuguese ship. . Provenance: James Hustler "of Acklam in Cleveland in the North Riding of the Country of York Esq." engraved armorial bookplate dated 1730; Bernard Gore Brett Melbourne book collector. chez Jacques l'Aveugle unknown
1717ref. 3211648Bordeaux" actually Rouen: chez Jacques l'Aveugle 1717. A fine copy. Duodecimo woodcut device on title; 19th-century grained morocco gilt gauffred edges. First edition Rosenberg edition 'A' of this important imaginary voyage to Australia: a "landmark" in the development of the French voyage novel Atkinson. Friederich comments that the importance of mining and irrigation to the Australians makes it the only work "to foreshadow what has actually come to pass in modern Australia". This is an attractive copy of this precursor to Defoe set on the Australian continent among people obsessed with mining and the problems of irrigation: "the detailed account of the adventurer's camp in the Austral continent the building of a raft and the descriptions of plants and trees may be compared favourably to similar passages in Robinson Crusoe." Atkinson. The author Tyssot de Patot was a remarkable figure an English-born Huguenot and self-taught philosopher with a background in mathematics who at the impressive age of 72 suddenly scandalized his Dutch community and was run out of town as a dangerous heretic. He wrote two wonderfully inventive imaginary voyages both well ahead of their time: one was an account of a journey deep underground into a hollow earth while the present work tells the story of a veteran sailor called Jacques Massé who shipwrecks in the far southern reaches of the Indian Ocean not far from what is now Kerguelen Island. Delighted with the new world he discovers Massé denounces his European heritage only to be betrayed and have to flee to the coast where he is besieged for 12 years before being finally rescued by a Portuguese ship. The work was a modest bestseller of the era and the question of editions has been thoroughly investigated by Aubrey Rosenberg no small task given that all four major editions are dated 1710 on the title-page. Rosenberg argues that this edition 'A' in his list with an armillary sphere device on the title with its base pointing to the left was probably published between 1714 and 1717 and is the true first edition of the work. As Rosenberg points out this series of editions dispels the notion that interest in Tyssot quickly died out: in fact the staggered publications argue a sustained interest in the work throughout the eighteenth century. Tyssot de Patot's writings were a continual source of scandal: Voltaire thought that he had "carried the torch of discord into their homeland". Certainly the antagonistically anti-religious stance of this novel created much ill-feeling. Atkinson comments that because "open criticism of the Bible is so frequent" he will have to content himself with listing just a few of the more extreme examples. Nonetheless Atkinson's positive summary gives a good sense of the importance of the work: "a close following of accounts of real travellers such as Dellon Tavernier Mocquet and Lahontan. There is nothing fantastic unbelievable or overdrawn in the descriptions of the Austral continent.". The story has Massé shipwrecking on the Southern continent at "44 South latitude almost at the point where Kerguelen Island will be found to be on modern maps" Atkinson. Whilst most of the survivors of the wreck are content to maintain a large presence on the coast Massé and his friend Moret travel inland where they settle in an enormous and well-organised utopia "a plentiful fruitful country a land of blessing and peace . where human blood is sacred and safe from the rage and tyranny of great men". They become so enamoured of their Australian hosts that they abjure their faith and their European heritage and it is only when Moret is betrayed by his liaison with a treacherous queen that they reluctantly flee escaping rather fortuitously by a subterranean river which deposits them close by the original settlement. They remain besieged in the camp for another twelve years before they are finally picked up by a Portuguese ship. . Provenance: This copy from the British Museum with the stamp on verso of title and the 1831 duplicate release stamp; also the crowned cipher "C.G." on spine. chez Jacques l'Aveugle unknown
1740ref. 811F4A La Hague The Hague: Isaac Beauregard 1740. First edition. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. The very scarce first edition of this two volume mid eighteenth century French language study of the history of the Celts from 'the fabulous times' to the capture of Rome. In the original French.The very scarce first edition of French historian Simon Pelloutier's principal work a study of the history of the Celts with a particular focus on the Gauls and Germans.With detailed discussions of the agricultural practices religion 'virtues and vices' and military conquests of the Celtic people.Two volumes in one with continuous pagination across both parts. With volume II title page - leaf H12 - lacking. While this first edition was viewed as factually flawed the historical study was viewed as valuable enough to warrant further revised editions following Pelloutier's death including Chiniac de la Bastide's 1771 edition.With the former owner's inscription 'HTA' to head of front pastedown and with the armorial bookplate of Charles Bruce Earl of Ailesbury to the verso of the title page. Bruce was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 until 1711 when he was raised to the peerage as one of Harley's Dozen and sat in the House of Lords.A detailed eighteenth century study of the Celts and Gauls concluding with a thrilling account of the capture of Rome. In a full calf binding with gilt detailing to back strip. Rubbing to back strip and board perimeters with minor loss of leather to back strip tail. Front and rear joints starting. Boards holding firm. Inscription to head of front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Armorial bookplate to verso of title page. Pages age toned with significant spotting throughout most prominent to title page and first few leaves. Good Isaac Beauregard hardcover
1969ref. 33184Arcadia Press 1969. The deluxe edition this being #110 of 265 copies signed by Simon. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full burgundy morocco with colour inlays with grape design. Five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine marbled endpapers. Slight sunning to spine but otherwise in fine condition. A beautiful production. Arcadia Press unknown
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1928ref. 229431928 Aquarelle signée en bas à droite, (1928), 27 x 36 cm., encadrée.
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1936ref. 84921s. l. 1936. Fine. s. l. 1936 24 x 30 cm 38 photographies Set of 38 original photographs silver gelatin prints of the period in 24x30cm format depicting scenes from the filming of the movie. Le mort en fuite is a film by André Berthomieu assisted by André Zwobada with Carlo Rim as dialogue writer and adapter; the main roles were played by Michel Simon Jules Berry and Marie Glory. Here is the synopsis: Two mediocre actors from the ""Folies printanières"" Hector Trignol Jules Berry and Achille Baluchet Michel Simon invent an imaginary crime to gain publicity: Achille will pretend that he murdered Hector out of romantic rivalry and when the press seizes upon this news item the ""victim"" will reappear to exonerate Achille and make him a hero. For authenticity the two friends threaten each other in public and make noise in their room before Hector secretly leaves the building without being seen by the concierge. But contrary to what the two accomplices had imagined no one pays attention to Hector's disappearance and he grows impatient in his hideout in Brussels. He finally sends an anonymous letter to the Public Prosecutor to report the ""crime"" but despite Baluchet's efforts to make himself appear suspicious the investigators only believe in Trignol's ""disappearance"". It is then that the revue leader Myra supposedly the cause of the romantic rivalry between Baluchet and Trignol decides to profit from the latter's disappearance for her own publicity. Achille is finally arrested and in vain he proclaims his innocence first before the examining magistrate then before the criminal court. The verdict falls: he will be sentenced to capital punishment and his request for presidential pardon will be rejected. Meanwhile feeling watched Trignol has taken refuge in Berlin then in Warsaw where he was kidnapped because he is the double of Russian General Mikhaïl Popov. He will appear before a court martial and be sentenced to be shot. The set is presented in a cardboard box whose lid is missing. unknown
1808ref. 70406à Paris: Chez Bossange 1808. Fine. Chez Bossange à Paris 1808 13 x 20.50 cm relié First edition rare translated by Baron Jean de Reuilly. Contemporary full red Russia leather binding. Smooth spine decorated with 5 fleurons and fillets. Gilt title. Wide decorative border on boards with eagles serpents rabbits and stars in the corners. Interior garland. Spine darkened having become dark red. Dark stains on lower board. One scratch on upper board. Endpapers having suffered humidity with discoloration. In lower margin faint trace of dampstaining throughout the volume more extensive at end of volume with traces in outer and lower margins. Handsome copy in contemporary Russia leather. Manuscript ownership inscription Sorlin d'origny Constantinoples 1882. Below a biographical note on Baron de Reuilly. Sole separate edition of Pallas's journey to Tibet which had not been printed in the French editions. It was translated from the first and third volumes of the German edition of Pallas's voyage published in St. Petersburg from 1771 to 1776. This edition was prefaced and annotated by Reuilly based on the missions of several travelers Bogle Stewart Georgi and Andrade and from his own observations. Chez Bossange hardcover
1704ref. 053760Amsterdam Amstelaedami i.e. Amsterdam: Franciscus Halma 1704. Third & Enlarged Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 14 x 10 Inches Tall. Portrait. JULY SALE 40% OFF! AMSTERDAM : 1704. First published in 1660. Protestant theology and ecclesiology in the Reformation Netherlands. Nice contemporary binding. Latin text. Large folio volume; wide margins. Hardback. Title-page printed in red & black with engraving to centre. Full vellum-leather; blind-tooled raised bands and panels to covers. Large blind-decorative cartouche to covers. Original hand-lettered title onto spine. Original sewn-in head & tail bands and end-papers. All edges sprinkled red. Contemporary portrait of Arminius tipped-in to second blank. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Feint old stain upper margin of a few pages. Very clean and fresh paper. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xiv 978 ix i pages. Index. 1 page errata to rear plus 9pp index. There is also a 2pp index/contents prior to page 1. Folio; over 14 inches tall. SCARCE. TITLE CONTINUES: Praestantium ac eruditorum virorum epistolae ecclesiasticiae et theologicae / quarum longe major pars scripta est a Jac. Arminio Joan. Uytenbogardo Conr. Vorstio Ger. Joan. Vossio Hug. Grotio Sim. Episcopio Casp. Barlaeo. Editio tertia novo augmento locupletata. Editio tertia nova augmento locupletata. Heavy volume; extra postage needed. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Literature Rarities Theology and History. Franciscus Halma hardcover
2007ref. mon0000456024Reynolds & Hearn Ltd 07/06/2007 00:00:01. paperback. Good. 2.1983 in x 22.9825 in x 15.5882 in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd paperback
1861ref. 222517Paris: Delarue 1861. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards green vellum french tips spine gilt signed L. Pouillet. Near fine. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Rare first edition of Simon Blocquel's 1760-1863 history of tobacco and advice for its use. Sections include a discussion of its cultivation its introduction to Europe government control the advantages and disadvantages of its use and "Le Code du Cigare ou la politesse du fumeur." The Arents catalog identifies two issues of the first edition this being the issue without the folding plate but printed in the same year. Blocquel had no less than seven pseudonyms; he wrote on domestic economy for women gastronomy travel history white magic and literature. Arents 1696 Delarue unknown
1819ref. 20079Paris 1819. FIRST EDITION. Modern boards uncut. First edition “excessively rare”- Dorbon. A refutation of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal which the author believes trivializes and negates the true existence of the paranormal. Here Simonnet provides anecdotal evidence for ghost sightings miracles witchcraft werewolves demons and prophecies. In his conclusion he asserts that denying the existence of these things is heresy. The text concludes with an alphabetic table of the authors cited. This work was so incendiary to the Catholic Church that the Vatican invested huge sums of money to remove copies from private libraries. Caillet 10217; Yve-Plessis 76; Dorbon 977; Barbier Anon IV: 16. unknown
1912ref. 410929London: Davey & Hackney 1912. Some rubbing to binding. Photos with some age toning and occasional fading but generally well preserved and crisp. Album containing 39 mounted black and white photographs the first nine 11 1/4 x 7 inches or vice versa; the remaining 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches or vice versa. Each photo is captioned in the lower margin of the print. In a padded leather album titled in gilt on the front cover. The photos presumably assembled in this album to commemorate a single voyage show: profile view of the ship from port the dining room social hall smoke room writing room gymnasium promenade deck swimming bath Captain Custance dancing deck boat deck Southampton docks deep sea trawlers playing cricket Leith thread the needle race tennis boxing. The final picture shows the "Arcadian" in a fjord in Norway. SS Arcadian was a Barrow-in-Furness built passenger liner constructed in 1899 by Vickers Sons & Maxim Ltd for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company originally named Ortona. She was renamed Arcadian in 1910 after the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company acquired her in 1906. She started her first world cruise in January 1912 the largest dedicated cruise ship in the world at that time. These photos document her use as a cruise ship so must date from circa 1912. In World War I she served with the Royal Navy and was sunk by a U-boat in 1917. On 15 April 1917 Arcadian was en route from Thessaloniki Salonika to Alexandria with a company of 1335 troops and crew and escorted by a Japanese Navy destroyer. Shortly after completing a boat drill while 26 miles north east of the Greek island of Milos Arcadian was hit by a single torpedo from the German submarine SM UC-74 and sank within six minutes with the loss of 279 lives. A contemporary newspaper article described how four of Arcadian’s overcrowded lifeboats were successfully lowered before she sank. Some of the dead were cooks and stokers who were working below decks. The escorting destroyer had two torpedoes launched at her while she was attempting to rescue men from the water; survivors reported that she had lowered three of her own boats while going “at full speed”. More survivors who had been clinging to a raft were rescued at midnight by the Q-ship HMS Redbreast. Among the dead was the eminent bacteriologist Sir Marc Armand Ruffer who was returning to Alexandria after advising on the control of an epidemic among troops based at Thessaloniki Wikipedia. Davey & Hackney unknown
ref. B200650-1London Victoria Miro Gallery & Coracle Press 1987. Multiple. Edition limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by the artist and author in the colophon. A collaborative edition of text and image in which a poem by Cutts is set within a complex multiple by Tuttle in "wood aluminum canvas paper wire ink paint" as noted in the colophon and the ensemble encased in a lidded wooden box. Contents comprise the Cutts text "the green/ calyx of/ the petals/ of wallpaper/ &" printed in red on a large folding sheet or irregular dimensions the verso of which features a spray painting by Tuttle in blue; a unique large handcut gold-painted canvas construction by Tuttle with wire elements initialled by the artist on the verso; and a section of colored wallpaper. A colophon printed on brown kraft paper matching that of the Cutts poem wrapped around a floating panel is attached to the interior of the lid of the box. The box imprinted with the title features two decorative aluminum clasps at the sides designed by Tuttle cast from twisted cigarette foil papers. Box dimensions: 495 x 353 x 74 mm. ca. 19 1/2 x 13 7/8 x 3 inches. In this copy the two staples which originally attached one edge of the text to the canvas construction have been removed making accessible all elements of the ensemble. The Cutts text is reinforced with tape at the central fold. London (Victoria Miro Gallery & Coracle Press), 1987.
1811ref. 95242Paris Saint Petersbourg: Klostermann 1811. Scarce first edition of early work on the distillation of wine and eau-de-vie. Octavo bound in full period tree calf gilt titles and tooling to the spine red morocco spine label five folding maps of distillation apparatus rebacked retaining the original spine. Stamps and previous owner inscriptions. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Works on the distillation of eau de vie are rare. Klostermann unknown
