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D' après des documents inédits. Tome premier: xviii+276 pp. Tome second: 392 pp. 25,2x16,5 cm. Chez Jules Renouard et Cie, Libraires, Paris, 1854.
Mixtes techniques d'illustration. Un des premiers livres illustrés par la photographie, contenant deux calotypes sur papier fin monté. Il contient 7 pp. de fac-similé reproduisant une description d'Athènes par un anonyme vers 1460 + 24 gravures h.t. et quelques dans le texte, sur bois, cuivre ou lithographiées, dont plusieurs repliées, avec une eau-forte originale de Ch. Méryon représentant le couvent des Capucines à Athènes, spécialement gravée pour cet ouvrage.
--- Half-leather (private binding, morocco leather), marbled endpapers. Light edgewear. Occasianal foxing. Tight binding, original paper covers are included. Pages clean of underlinings or notes. Very impressive engravings, a rare edition. (More photos are available)
--- Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the… Read More

Texte remanié et augmenté. Neuf dessins et trois vignettes dessinés et gravés par D. Galanis. 124 pp. 23x14,5 cm. Éditions EOS, Paris, 1926. Édition numérotée, N.73/350.
--- Some spinewear. Pages bright and clean. Beautiful engravings by Galanis.

L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 31 gravures h.t. (4 cartes et 27 gravures). 21,9x13,6 cm. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1881.
--- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Some wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and engravings in very good condition, without foxing.
--- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud (...)"

Dans le sillage d'Hippocrate. Préface du prof. Aristote Kousis, avant-propos du dr. G. de Loverdo, post-face du prof. Gérasime Phocas. Six dessins hors texte originaux de F. Perilla. Première édition. 46 pp. 25x18 cm. Imprimerie Constantinople. Athènes, 1936.
--- Text in french. Some wear on covers. Pages bright and clean. Partly uncut.

956 pp. 27x18,5 cm. Rozez et Compe, Libraires-Éditeurs, Bruxelles, 1849.
--- Half-leather, gilt lettering on spine. Wear at the edges of the covers and spine. Occasional foxing. Stamps of water on frontispieces and fore-edges.

Edited, with an Introduction by the Rev. Alfred Ainger. xviii+368 pp.+1 pl. h.t.16x11 cm. Macmillan and Co., Limited, New York, 1907. Ex libris Giorgio Recchi.
--- Three-quarter leather (private binding with stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.

507 pp. 21x13,5 cm. Henri Barba fils ainé, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1837.
--- Half-leather, spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Blindstamped covers. Wear to extremities. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Extensive foxing.

Étude suivie des poésies de Michel-Ange. Première traduction complète. Nouvelle édition. iii+353 pp. 18x12 cm. Librairie Académique Didier et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs, Paris, 1875. --- Cloth-bound (private binding). Light wear on extremities. Very tight binding. Previous owner stamp and name on first blank page. Occasional light foxing.

First edition. viii+381 pp. 19,5x12,5 cm. Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, New York, 1868. --- Not mentioned on frontispiece, but the author of the book is Osborn Laughton (1809-1878). Cloth-bound, with gilt lettering on the spine. Wear to the bottom and the upper part of the spine (see photo) and some spots on back cover. Tight binding. Pages have yellowed with age. Some foxing. Unmarked.

First edition. 59 pp.+1 photo h.t. Castle Press, London, 1953.
--- Half-cloth and hard covers. Dust jacket with some edgewear. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed.

Mésopotamie - Palestine - Syrie - Égypte - Turquie. Notes de voyage 1923-1924. 303 pp+1 carte h.t. 18,5x12 cm. Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie, Paris, 1924.
--- Some edgewear and some spots on covers. Pages are unmarked.

With drawings by John Ward. First Edition. 281 pp. 20,5x14 cm. The Hogarth Press, London, 1959.
--- First UK Edition. First issue. The first issue describing the fire at the piano factory (p. 272) subsequently suppressed.
--- Hardback (green), with dust jacket. Binding very tight, with no wear. Gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has signs of scuffing and some discoloration on spine (see photo). Some foxing on top edge and light foxing on endpapers. Other pages clean and bright, unmarked.
"Cider with Rosie" was dramatised for television by the BBC in 1970 and again in 1998 by Carlton Television for ITV. It was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2010. It has also been adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.

Tragédie antique en deux parties, en vers. Avec introduction et intermèdes pour orchestre. Musique de J. Massenet. 58 pp. 23x15 cm. Alphonse Lemerre, Éditeur, Paris, s.d. (c.1890)
--- Half-leather. Some edgewear. Marbled endpapers. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

Illustrations en couleurs par Auguste Leroux. 78 pp. 26x19 cm. Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, Paris, 1912 // Tirage à 150 exemplaires. En feuillets.
--- One of 150 copies printed. Loose leaves in an illustrated envelope, which has wear on spine and edges. Pages bright and clean. Richly illustrated (colour ills.). Text in french.

Lectures. x+175 pp. Oxford University Press, London, 1944.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's cloth), gilt lettering on spine.

Some Greek views of life in the Roman world. xi+302 pp.+ 8 ills. h.t. Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 1976.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Some spots at the edges, otherwise the book is clean. B&W ills.

First edition (stated). 190 pp. 22,3x15 cm. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London, 1958.
--- Black & white illustrations. Hardcover. Dust jacket has tears and some pieces of paper are missing (see photo). The book is in a very good condition. Pages are bright and clean. Unmarked.

D'après des papiers de famille et les archives secrètes du Ministère de l'Intérieur. Ouvrage orné de vingt-deux illustrations hors texte. Cinquième édition. x+366 pp. Émile-Paul, Éditeur, Paris, 1909.
--- Cloth-bound (private binding). Gilt lettering on spine. Wear at corners and pine ends, especially at the bottom of the spine (see photo). Some discolouration on spine. Very tight binding. Ex libris on front endpaper and on first blank page. Fore-edge and bottom-edge untrimmed.

Les 4 premiers de 11 volumes. Édition illustrée. Calmann Lévy, Éditeur - A. Le Vasseur et Cie, Éditeurs, Paris, s.d. (1893). Tome 1: Discours de réception à l'Académie Française - Le mariage de Loti - Aziyadé Tome 2: Le Roman d' un Spahi - Fleurs d' ennui Tome 3: Pêcheur d' Islande - Mon frère Yves Tome 4: Au Maroc - Le roman d' un enfant - Le livre de la pitié et de la mort
--- Half-leather. Edgewear and scuffing at spines. Very tight binding, pages bright and clean. Marbled endpapers. Engravings.

Mother tells a bedtime story. Bedtime Stories / Whitman Publishing Co., 1925. --- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Decoration on front cover. Unnumbered. Some edgewear, underlinings on six pages, previous owner name. Colour ills.