Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems, Copyright edition
&
Ballads and Sonnets Copyright
edition.
2 Volumes
(Collection of British Authors
Tauchnitz Edition Series. Volumes 1380 and 2098 ) Poems with a memoir of
the author by Franz Huffer, 1873, xxvi, 282pp. Ballads and Sonnets with
a memoir of the author by Francis Hueffer, 1882, 287pp. Leipzig, Bernhard
Tauchnitz, 1873 and 1882. In a splendid full red leatehr binding
tooled in gilt on the spines front and rear boards (ask for picture) spines
with 5 raised bands. T.e.g. right and bottom edges of the text
untrimmed, text only very sl. yellowed and with a few spots on prelims
and last pages. A wonderful set (167 x 122 mm. ) £200
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Layard, Henry (Sir)
EARLY ADVENTURES IN PERSIA,
SUSIANA, AND BABYLONIA Including a Residence Among the Bakhtiyari and
Other Wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh 2 Volumes
London John Murray 1887, volume
1: [8] 490, frontispiece in colour and one other b/w plate, and folding
maps of Syria, Kuzistan volume 2: [8] 511pp., b/w frontispiece,
with folding map of the Rivers Euphrat and Tigris . in the original green
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with red abd black decorated
boards and the spines with titles in gilt. text yellowed, inner hinges
weak, occasional lines, short annot. in margins by Prof. Henry Saggs,
a 3 cm piece torn off the top of the spine of volume 1 has been pasted
back, both spines frayed at the bottom and top, volume one' spine with
a scratch across half of the spine, red letering on front boards faded.
[ ASK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS ].
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony A-dur op. 90
the "Italienische"
All the composer's music in manuscript
, score 1833. "Oxford Fragments". Part-score 1834 .With commentaries (bi-lingual
in English and German) by John M. Cooper and Hans-Günter
Klein. 1997. 340 x 240 mm. Volume 1: 48 pages of text and
100 pages of facsimile; volume 2: 32 pages of text, and 54
pages of faksimile; Appendix 24 pages in slip case £150
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The Serbian Psalter
Splendid Facsimile edition of the Cod. Slav 4
in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Edited by Hans Belting, the text
volume (in German) prepared with the co-operation of Suzy Dufrenne,
Svatozar Radojcic, Rainer Stichel and Ihor Sevcenko. 1981. Format
300 x 215 mm. 458pp., all the 148 miniatures and opposite pages in
full colours, the text pages in one colour. One of a limited edition of
only 550 copies, text volume, 1978, 300 x 215 mm, 313 pp and 52 plates.
cloth
Serbia's most precious example of medieval
book illumination may be the Serbian Psalter now located in the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library). It originated around 1400
through the Brankovic princes and was much later booty to the winners of
the Turkish war in Bavaria in 1689. Despot Djuradj Brankovic (1427-1456,
George Brankovich) was one of the last Serbian rulers before Serbia's final
fall under Turkish yoke in 1459. His family was known for having a strong
and decisive faith in God. The Codex is written on paper and its composition
offers evidence for liturgical use by laymen. This possibility reflects
the fact that some of the Serbian Orthodox monks taught literacy in order
for people to understand Christianity better and the monasteries served
as centers for culture and art. Monasteries of Studenica, Zica, Pec, Mileseva,
Sopocani, Decani, Ravanica, Manasija, etc., all founded by royal donators,
outlived the State and centuries of captivity. The manuscript contains
148, often full-page miniatures reflecting the tradition of illustrating
the Psalms of the Bible. Together with the Bulgarian Tomic Psalter the
Serbian Psalter mirrors an old tradition of psalm illustration only found
in these 2 manuscripts. £1800
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White, J[oseph] (Translator)
[1745- 1814]
Aegyptiaca: or, Observations
on certain antiquities of Egypt : In two parts.
Part 1. The history of Pompey's pillar elucidated.
Part II. Abdollatif's account of the antiquities of Egypt, written in Arabic
A.D. 1203. Translated into English, and with notes / By J. White, D.D.
Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford; editor of Timour's Institutes
in the Persian; of the Philoxenian version of the New Testament in the
Syriac; of Abdollatif's History of Egypt in the Arabic; Bampton Lecturer
for the year 1784; and late publisher of a critical edition of the Gospels
in Greek; and of a diatessaron in the same language, for the use of academical
students. Part 1 only (part 2 was never published ) Oxford : At the
University Press, for the author: sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies, Strand,
London; and by the booksellers in Oxford., 1801. First Edition,. [4], xiii,
[3], 227 [i.e. 127], [1] p., [mispaginated '227'], 7 engraved plates (1
folding plan of Alexandria ). Lrge. 4to., 240 x 311 mm. Full tree
calf, with new spine. Ex-library Windsor Castle with the library's ex-libris
on inner front board and stamped aauthorisation to sell this copy in January
1948. Also some slight remnants of glue on this inside front board. Corners
and edges bumped/ a bit worn. , edges Gilt titling , Includes bibliographical
footnotes. No more published, Pp. 126-7 misnumbered 226-7. Signatures:
pi2 a-b4 B-R4; Text in English with quotations and examples in Arabic and
Greek *** First edition of White's detailed examination of Pompey's Pillar
in Egypt. White consulted 18th century accounts of French and English travellers,
displaying a marked anti-French sentiment. More importantly White researched
among ancient sources in Greek, Latin and Arabic, which he quotes selectively
in the original languages. In 1777 Joseph White had been appointed Laudian
Professor or Arabic, a position he held until his death in 1814. Overall
good copy with crisp text [ Our ref. 092561 ]
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FRIED, Erich., Deutschland.
Gedichte.
London, Austrian P.E.N., 1944, 29pp.,
original cream printed wrappers with blue dust-jacket,
contents foxed in the margins, prelims more so than text. First edition
of Erich Fried's first book, a collection of
poems written
between September 1943 and July 1944. In the
preface he
writes: Ich bin Oesterreicher. Deutschland habe
ich nur auf
der Durchreise nach England gesehen. Deutsche
habe ich
bei der Besetzung meiner Heimat als Feinde, in
der Emigration als Freunde kennengelernt. Vielleicht konnte ich diese Gedichte
schreiben, weil ich jener innigeren Bindung entbehre, die nahe Angehörige
angesichts tragischer Ereignisse verstummen lässt. Erich Fried (1921-1988).
- Kaukoreit 2. - KLG A. - KNLL V,830. - Kosch3 V,657. - LdG2 S. 163. -
Sternfeld/Tiedemann2 S. 150. - Wilpert-G.2 1. [ our ref. 092967 ]
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ST.-JOHN PERSE
[i.e.Alexis St. Leger Leger],
Quatre Poemes (1941-1944)
[La Porte Etroite No.7]. Buenos Aires, Lettres
Fraançaises, Editions SUR, 1944; 80pp.., printed wrappers, front
cover of wrappers decorated and printed in black and red
* With an introduction by Archibald Macleish. * The poems originally appeared
separately in American & French reviews between
1942 & 1944. paper , cover sl. soiled, small
tears in bottom of spine, booseller's label ( Schoenhoff's) on f.e.p.
¶ Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) -
Pseudonym for Marie - René - Auguste - Aléxis Saint-Léger.
French poet and diplomat, who used the pseudonym Saint-John Perse to keep
his literary activity private. Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1960. He has been called the embodiment of the French national spirit
and also a poet's poet for his emphasis on formal perfection and self-conscious
way of choosing his words. Perse's solemn, oracular poetry was written
in long lines that look like prose paragraphs but have a delicate musical
quality. During his years of exile in the USA Perse resumed writing poetry
His works darkened in tone - exile was for him a man's ever-present condition.
This theme - with the images of barren sand and desolate beaches - he examined
in EXILE (1942), dedicated to Archibald Mac Leish, the Librarian of Congress.
It has been described as one of the greatest works emerging from World
War II. PLUIES (1944), which took its rhythms from a rainstorm, and NEIGES
(1945), more tender in tone, were first published in the Sewanee Review.
[ our reference 092968 ] £125
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Lewis Carroll
Alice in wonderland.
Illustrated by John Tenniel.
The Sally Press. n.d. facsimile reprint in
curious private collage-art binding
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