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# 46724

van GOGH, Vincent (1853 - 1890)

The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2001. A Bulfinch Press Book. Third edition, second printing. Three volumes, octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt decoration, pp. lxviii; 559; 625; 625, illustrations, a fine set housed in the publisher’s buckram slipcase. ‘One of the most important and powerful works in the literature …

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# 46405

Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l’Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

Paris : chez Saintin, libraire, rue de Bussy, no. 15, au premier, [c.1805]. Duodecimo (133 x 82 mm), contemporary red straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt (boards lightly marked; corners worn; spine ends softened; some wear along the outer hinges); all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, two separate title-pages (both bearing the same imprint), one with vignette …

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# 46515

DACHS, Fridericus Bernhardus (editor); CRAMER, Johann Jakob; MILL, David

Masekhet Sukah mi-Talmūd bavli Hoc est, Talmudis Babylonici Codex Succa, sive de tabernaculorum festo, ritus ejus atque ceremonias exponens Latinitate donavit,

notisque philologicis ex utroque Talmude, aliisque veterum ac modernorum rabbinorum scriptis illustravit Fridericus Bernhardus Dach … Accedit Cl. Joh. Jacobi Crameri … Cum praefatione viri clarissimi Davidis Millii. Utrecht : apud Gysbertum a Paddenburg, 1726. Small quarto (210 x 160 mm), expertly rebound in panelled navy leather sympathetically styled to the period, spine with raised bands and …

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# 46470

DIETRICH, Veit (1506-1549)

Der gantz Prophet Esaias

Außgelegt durch Vitum Dietrich. Zu disen schweren un[d] küm[m]erlichen zeyten allen Christen nütz unnd tröstlich zu lesen. Nürmberg [i.e. Nürnberg] : Johan vom Berg & Ulrich Newber [i.e. Neuber], M.D.VLXIII [in error: 1563?]. Small quarto (210 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum over boards (scuffed and stained), spine with raised bands and early manuscript lettering ‘ESAIA’, …

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# 46642

[SYDNEY]. Airport Flying Game

[London?] : Fairylite Indoor Games, circa 1950. Game boards with title label, 370 x 360 mm (opened), with four destinations in the four corners being Sydney (with image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge), Bombay, New York and Cape Town, London at the centre, box with title label, die and shaker, four plastic aeroplane tokens, corners …

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# 46641

"Geographic"

Motor Chase across London. The new map game.

London : “Geography”, circa 1935. Folding game board with cloth spine, cover illustrations, 372 x 500 mm (opened), map of London, accompanied by the original box containing die, shaker, five lead car tokens and rules sheet, box with one side split, a couple of small stains to board, overall a good example. Scarce.

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# 46530

Maker unknown.

The Game of Spellicans

[English, probably 1890-1900]. Wooden box, 120 x 46 x 23 mm; sliding lid with printed label worded ‘The Game of Spellicans. Round wood. This game may be played by two or more persons. The game does not only afford a source of amusement, but at the same time conveys instruction with it.‘; no maker’s imprint; …

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# 46785

OLLIER, Rose Marie

[ESPIONAGE] Madame Ollier (code name “Olga”), Second Secretary to the French Embassy in Canberra arrested for spying during the Petrov Affair in 1954 : signed Christmas card, December 1953.

Folding card, 135 x 170 mm, the third side inscribed in fountain pen: ‘Avec les sentiments respectueux et le meilleur souvenir de R. M. Ollier. Canberra 17-12-53’; the otherwise blank rear has been annotated by a previous owner: ‘Madame Ollier of “Petrov Affair” fame’; fine condition. Rose Marie Ollier was employed as Second Secretary to …

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# 46700

KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

Old Korea : the land of morning calm

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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# 30167

BIGOT, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)

Croquis Japonais par G. Bigot. 1886. Tokio

[Tokyo : The artist, 1886]. Large folio (460 x 315 mm), original limp vellum covers with Japanese hand-stitched binding (a little dusty and with light handling wear), with etched title and illustration to front cover and etching to rear; [32] leaves, with 29 original etchings illustrating Japanese types and their costume (although note the final print …

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# 42469

Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

Relance da historia do Japão.

Porto : Maranus, 1924. First edition. Octavo, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering; later silk endpapers and bookplate of Fernando Alves Barata; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with tipped-on photographic illustration; pp. 299, [6], with one map; fine copy.

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# 42471

Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

Relance da alma japoneza. (Special edition limited to 200 copies)

Lisbon : Portugal-Brasil and Arthur Brandão (1925 or 1926). Octavo, later half red calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering; later silk endpapers and bookplate of Fernando Alves Barata; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with illustration, the lower with publisher’s ads.; pp. 256, [4]; edition limited to …

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# 42457

BLEEKER, Pieter (1819-1878)

[FISHES] Nieuwe nalezingen op de ichthyologie van Japan.

[Batavia : Lange?, 1854 or 1855]. Large quarto (280 x 230 mm), recent half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt; pp. 132 + [8] leaves of lithographed plates; the text is dated January-February 1854 at the foot of the last page; occasional spotting and browning, a couple …

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# 42462

Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

Relance da alma japoneza.

Lisbon : Portugal-Brasil and Arthur Brandão (1925 or 1926). Octavo, later half calf, spine with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; original wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper with illustration, the lower with publisher’s ads.; pp. 256, [4]; half-title with early ownership signature; fine copy.

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# 46016

Surveyor General

Malaya 1950

[Kuala Lumpur] : Surveyor General, Malaya, 1950. Map, printed in colour, 990 x 720 mm (sheet), laid on linen, in plain card boards, fine. A highly detailed map of the newly formed Federation of Malaya on (established 1 February 1948), including the separate state of Singapore, with an inset map ‘Malaya and adjacent territories’.

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# 46601

PENANG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Penang : pearl of the orient

[Georgetown] : Penang Development Corporation, circa 1975. Tourist brochure, DL size, printed in colour, pp. [10], photographs.

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