(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  092955

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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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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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  ]  £495

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 ] 
£ 250

[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