Foreign Language Books from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Paris: P.Ducrocq, 1883. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations (106 fullpage and text) + head and tailpieces . Quarto red gilt pcitorial cloth on bevelled boards with fine nautical scene to front cover (tips worn/lower hinge repaired) All Edges Gilt. Halftitle, +Frontis +TP+296pp. Some pale foxing mainly to prelims and end but mostly clean and fine. A handsome production.

Germany: Insel Verlag No.426, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Scissor cut silhouettes (16) . Duodecimo pictorial boards with cover label (tips sl.worn/1cm split to one hinge) 79pp neat but no dust jacket, if issued. TEXT IN GERMAN natural history of a meadow

Chaux-de-Fonds: Bahn, 1894 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Plates and illustrations by W. Vigier. Large octavo red gilt pictorial cloth (rebacked with most of old spine laid on, rubbed and spine dulled some marks) All Edges Gilt 320pp Minor foxing or edge browning, inner hinges strengthened else neat *Contains 3 Swiss stories by this Folk writer

Berlin: Jugendhort, 1890 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Heliogravure frontis in blue + 3 purple tint plates . Octavo green decorated cloth (tips rubbed/spine darkened & sl.bumped to head) Top Edge Gilt 208pp slight edge yellowing but clean and white text. V.G *German (Gothic letter) girls' story

Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner 6th impression, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Octavo cloth spined boards (spine split to hinge/tips worn/lower cover marked & with small paper loss) viii+363pp+catal. Paper edge-browned and some marginal splits without affecting text but neat and not creased. Inscriptions on FEP, note on REP and generally poor quality paper but a clean and tight copy.