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1534. Cologne (Köln) / Leyden (Lyon), Johann Gymnicus (Gymnich) / Johannes and Franciscus Frellon, 1534 / 1537. Octavo. Collation complete: I. Euricius Cordus - Botanologicon: Title with the woodcut device of Cologne-printer Johann Gymnicus, including his Motto, the first line of a Verse from the Aeneid by Virgil 'Discite Iustitiam Moniti', 183, [21] pp., 2 blank leaves. The titlepage of the Botanologicon bears the manuscript ownership-entry of Nuremberg's Astronomer, Philosopher and Mathematician Hieronymus Schreiber [also called Jerôme Schreiber], student-friend of Euricius Cordus' son Valerius Cordus in Wittenberg and later trustee of Valerius Cordus' scholarly estate after Valerius Cordus' premature death in Rome. Dated in the same hand on the titlepage also the entry 'Anno 1539', when Valerius Cordus matriculated at Wittenberg and Schreiber already had studied there since May 1532. With several contemporary manuscript annotations throughout both titles (the Botanologicon and Examen) / II. A.… Leer más

1750. 200 Titles in c. 500 Volumes. Manch / Bandon, c.1750 - 1880. Octavo. Original Hardcover Volumes or original wrappers. The overall condition of these books is very good or even better, mainly restored and professionally repaired, with some Volumes still at the bookbindery and in process of repair and restoration. The Library will be delivered per International Courier UPS.

1800. London / Frankfurt / New York / Jerusalem and others, 1800 - 2000. Octavo / Quarto / Folio. Binding-Variations include decrorative historical bindungs as well as: Original Softcover / Orginal Hardcover / Original Hardcover with dustjackets in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The international shipping of the collection with UPS Express Courier is included in the price.

1910. England, [Douglas Cockerell / John William North], no year [c.1910]. Folio (34 cm wide x 42.5 cm high). 216 pages. Hardcover / Binding in full green morocco with lettering and Dante's head as bronze sculpture per inlet to front cover. Binding by Douglas Cockerell, signed "WHS", during his directorship of W.H.Smith & Son (1905 - 1914). The manuscript is on excellent paper, watermarked O.W.P. & A.C.L. [O.W. Paper & Arts Co. Ltd., established by English painter John William North (1842-1924) in 1895]. The binding rubbed and with some small damages, in need of some minor restoration but overall still very good. The interior, the paper and the artwork all in excellent condition besides one of the juxtaposed photographs (Filippina Lippo) removed from the manuscript with some residue of the photograph remaining and some of the photographs with some dogears and minimal discoloration. All the original artwork in spectacular and fresh condition. The manuscript is a spectacular find and the quality of… Leer más

1990. Bolivia, c.1990. Quarto. Twelve Hardcover Boxes / Bespoke made Boxes for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor / c. 140 Books, c. 100 original charts, Offprints and publications on Petroleum Geology from Kuwait to Bolivia. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A stunning, very large collection which is difficult to comprehend from the few photographs here. Collected over the course of fifty years by Dave Naylor in his capacity as Geologist and hired specialist for nearly all important Energy companies worldwide. The price for the collection includes shipping per Courier. The collection includes for example also: 1. Dadlez, Ryszard / Marek, Sylwester / Pokorski, Jedrzej. Palaeogeographical Atlas of the Epicontinental Permian and Mesozoic in Poland / Atlas Paleogeograficzny Epikontynentalnego Permu i Mezozoiku w Polsce. [1 : 2 500 000]. Bilingual Edition (Polish / English) 2. [Eastern Europe with Crimea / Poland / Romania] Naylor, David (Dave). Collection of five (5)… Leer más

1700. London and others, 1700 - 2000. Octavo / Quarto / Folio. Binding-Variations include decrorative historical bindungs as well as: Original Softcover / Orginal Hardcover / Original Hardcover with dustjackets in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The international shipping of the collection with UPS Express Courier is included in the price.

1750. 50 Titles in c. 100 Volumes. Ballymartle / Ballintobber (near Kinsale), c.1750 - 1800. Octavo. Original Hardcover Volumes or original wrappers. The overall condition of these books is very good or even better, mainly restored and professionally repaired, with some Volumes still at the bookbindery and in process of repair and restoration. The Library will be delivered per International Courier UPS. The Ballymartle family can be traced from Robert Meade, 3rd son of Lt. Col. William Meade. In 1682 Robert married Francis Courthorpe, the daughter of Sir Peter Courthorpe of Courtstown and Little Island, co. Cork. Their son William Meade was born in 1685. William was Rector of Ballymartle, Dunderrow and Ringroane, and was made Dean of Cork in 1736. The Ballymartle family were an off-shoot of the Meade family who later became Earls of Clanwilliam. Rev. William Meade's son, Rev. John Meade, (Rector of Ballymartle from 1752 onwards) bought the Ballymartle and Ballintober estates in 1787 from his cousin… Leer más

1958. Amman (Jordan) / Kuwait / Mexico / Potsdam, etc., c.1958 - 2011. Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Two bespoke made Boxes for the private reference library of Geologist David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Essays / Offprints / Xeroxed materials / Maps etc. included are (short summary only): Box I: 1. R.M.S.Owen and Sami N. Nasr - "Stratigraphy of the Kuwait - Basra Area" 2. A.F.Fox - "Some Problems of Petroleum Geology in Kuwait" (inscribed "with the author's compliments") 3. A.F.Fox - "The Development of the South-East Kuwait Oilfields" (posthumous publication, inscribed "with the author's compliments") [This publication gives a striking short-history of the prospecting in Kuwait and goes back as far as the geological survey on the basis of which the first wells were located in Kuwait and which was carried out in the spring of 1935 by P.T.Cox on behalf of the British Petroleum Company (then the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Company) and… Leer más

1982. Potsdam / Mexico / etc., c.1982 - 1990. Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Six (6) bespoke made Boxes for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Essays / Offprints / Xeroxed materials / Maps etc. included are (short summary only): Box III: (Includes material on the Delvina Gas Project etc. and a very early publication on the Polish Oilfields in the Carpathians) 1. Henry de Cizancourt - "Geology of Oil Fields of Polish Carpathian Mountains" - First Edition - January 1931 of the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Volume 15 - Number 1) 2. Robert E. King - "Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the Soviet Union" (Rare Preprint before the actual publication 1969) 3. J.Sokolowski-"The Present State of Oil and Gas Geological Prospection in Poland" (Rare Preprint before the actual publication 1969) 4. Adam Tokarski - "Udziat wapienia muszlowego w budowie Przedgorza Karpat" / "Muschelkalk in the… Leer más

1902. Alexandria / Monaco / etc., c. 1902 - 1967. Octavo. Half Morocco. Bindings stronger rubbed and slightly damaged.

1982. Potsdam / Mexico / etc., c.1982 - 1990. Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Six (6) bespoke made Boxes for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Essays / Offprints / Xeroxed materials / Maps etc. included are (short summary only): Box I (includes lots of material on Yugoslavia / Romania etc.): 1. N.Grigoras - Geologie des Gisements de Petrole et de Gaz en Roumanie (Mexico, 1957 - signed/inscribed by Grigoras) 2. Luetzner, H. / Schab, G. - Tectonic Regime of Molasse Epochs - Comparative Analysis of the Formation of Paleozic and Cenozoic Molasses in Central and South-East Europe and Some Regions of U.S.S.R. (1982) 3. G.S.Dzotsenidze - Essay of Comparison of the Meso-Cenozoic Magmatism of the Caucasus, Crimea, Balkans and Carpathians (1968) 4. Mircea Sandulescu - The molasses formations in the geotectonical evolution of the Carpathians (1979) 5. L.A.Nevesskaja / I.A.Goncharova and others - "History of Paratethys" (1987)… Leer más

1968. London / UK / USA, c.1968-1996. Octavo. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. He sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he was not principally a politician. In 2019 he was appointed chair to the select committee on democracy and digital technologies. The committee published its findings in its Digital Technology & the Resurrection of Trust report in June 2020. Puttnam was born in Southgate, London, England, the son of Marie Beatrix, a homemaker of Jewish origin, and Leonard Arthur Puttnam, a photographer. Educated at… Leer más

1815. Turin / London / Stockholm / Copenhagen / Calais / Geneva, 1815 - 1841. Octavo - Quarto. The Letters are housed in a beautiful, bespoke Solander-Chemise. The original books are either bound in Morocco ("Two Duchesses"), original cloth with dustjacket ("Jeffersonian America") or in the publisher's original interim-wrappers (the rare 1812-printing of "Three messages, from the President of the United States, to Congress, in November 1811, together with Documents accompanying the same"). Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. The letters contain both personal and diplomatic news about a wide variety of subjects but some are of particular interest for understanding hitherto unknown diplomatic developments on historic events or military campaigns. Letters include for example: I. In a letter from May 7th,1815, only 5 weeks before Waterloo, in which Foster, in his function as "Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark", poses the question to Sir Charles… Leer más

1960. Germany, different publishers, c.1960 - 2002. Octavo. More than 100000 pages (onehundredthousand pages). Original Softcovers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ask for images. Price includes international shipping per courier. Josef Fleckenstein (* 18. Februar 1919 in Kämmeritz bei Querfurt; † 4. November 2004 in Göttingen) war ein deutscher Historiker, der die Geschichte des frühen und hohen Mittelalters erforschte. Nach Professuren in Frankfurt (1962–1965) und Freiburg (1965–1971) leitete er von 1971 bis 1987 das Göttinger Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte. Seine 1959/66 erschienene zweibändige Arbeit über die Hofkapelle der deutschen Könige wurde zum Standardwerk in der Mittelalterforschung. Jahrzehntelang beschäftigte er sich mit der historischen Entwicklung des Rittertums. Josef Fleckenstein legte 1939 das Abitur in Mainz ab. Er studierte Geschichte 1940/41 in Leipzig bei Hermann Heimpel und in Halle bei Martin Lintzel. Während des Studiums war er… Leer más

1855. London and others, (c. 1855 - 1970). Octavo / Quarto. More than 5000 pages with many photographs, illustrations and books with vintage maps etc. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Full inventory list with photographs and detailed descriptions upon request. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express Courier. You can see all books included in this collection described in detail and with photographs on our website ! The collection includes for example the following rare books of Africana [Just a selection !]: ____________________________________________________ Craster, J.E.E. Pemba – The Spice Island of Zanzibar. With 30 Illustrations [and a large, fold-out-map of Pemba Island]. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 351 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Very good+,… Leer más

1688. First Edition. Chester, Printed for the Author, 1688. Folio (24 cm x 35 cm). Pagination: Engraved Titlepage by P. Edwards, Printed Titlepage, [10 unnumbered], [Book I]: 107, [9 unnumbered] pages / Book II: [1], 488 pages / Book III: [1], 501, [1 unnumbered] pages / Plus [Bound with the rare Index]: "Index of the Names of Persons contained in the Academy of Armory and Blazon by Randle Holme. Printed at Chester in One Volume, Folio, 1688". London, McMillan / Robert Triphook, 1821. Pagination: [1], 46 pages. Hardcover / Modern Masterbinding with original endpapers bound in, bearing all the original ExLibris of previous owners. Stunning, modern half-leather with marbled-paper-covered Boards and gilt lettering on spine. All edges in original gilt. In protective Mylar. Provenance: From the library of welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Historically inherited from Thomas Pennant's father, David Pennant of Bighton, who received it as gift from Randle Holme. Very good condition with only minor signs of… Leer más

Octavo. Hardcover / Softcover - Publications. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The price of the collection includes international shipping. See details of each publication which is part of the collection, on our website under "Libraries & Collections". The illustrations of books and magazines shown here are only a fraction of what is included in this very large collection. This collection is a fantastic possibility to acquire a bespoke library of important and necessary publications for the Design and understanding of Gardens in different climates and landscapes. Plants for all seasons, Herbs and Architectural No-No's are discussed in Magazines and specialist publications. The selective and knowledgable hands of Verney Naylor have made sure that nearly no questions remain unanswered with this Reference-Library. This library is a short-cut to a lifetime of collecting !

1924. New York and others, Knopf and others, 1924 - Octavo. More than 10000 pages. Most publications in original Hardcover with dustjacket some without. Overall in very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. The Collection also includes numerous important publications with Literary Criticism of Thomas Mann's work. Also available on our website is a large collection of important first german editions of Thomas Mann, including signed editions with original woodcuts, the first true edition of "Death in Venice", early newspaper-periodicals with true first editions of Mann's early works etc. etc.

1977. New York / London, Christie's / Sotheby's / Solio etc., 1977 - 2006. Quarto. More than 4500 pages with photographic records, descriptions and illustrations, framed photographs, signed books. Original Softcover and Hardcover - publications. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express Courier. John Minihan is an Irish photographer, born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy, County Kildare. At the age of 12 he was brought to live in London, and went on to become an apprentice photographer with the Daily Mail. At the age of 15 he won the Evening Standard amateur photography competition. At 21 he became the youngest staff photographer for the Evening Standard. For thirty years he remained in London, returning every year to his hometown of Athy to record the people and their daily lives. The work of Minihan in Athy makes up a large part of his canon. Minihan began taking photos in Athy when he… Leer más

1935. Harvard / Brandeis / Cambridge (Mass.) etc., c. 1935 - 1975. Octavo & Quarto. More than 2000 pages. Original Softcover / Stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Henry David Aiken (1912–1982), U.S. philosopher. Aiken was born in Portland, Oregon, and taught at the universities of Columbia, Washington, Harvard (1946–65), and Brandeis (1965–80), specializing in ethics, esthetics, and the history of philosophy. He was influenced by the British analytic movement, by the American naturalists – especially Santayana, and by David Hume's moral and political writings, some of which he edited. Among the works he wrote are The Age of Ideology (1957), selections including a commentary on 19th-century thought; Reason and Conduct (1962), a collection of essays in moral philosophy; and Predicament of the University (1971). [Source: Richard H. Popkin]