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  • Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.

    # 50802

    EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)

    Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.

    [=The genealogical relationship of most languages ​​of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …

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  • Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.

    # 50837

    [Photographer unknown].

    Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.

    [Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …

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  • Tacitus

    # 50851

    SYME, Sir Ronald

    Tacitus

    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1967 (reprint). Two volumes octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustaackets (price clipped, a little silverfished and edge worn), foxing to preliminaries, pp. xii; 464, 465 – 856, a very good set. An important study on Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c. 120); senator, orator, and one of the greatest historians of …

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  • Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

    # 50677

    VITZELLY, Henry

    Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

    collected during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France, and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe. London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879. Octavo, half crushed Morocco over cloth by Bayntun’s of Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled …

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  • Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.

    # 50828

    SCHWEIGHOFER, Felix; MAYER, Otto (photographer)

    Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; in the negative are the photographer’s handwritten details lower left ‘Otto Mayer, Dresden’, and facsimile signature of Felix Schweighofer lower right; lower margin recto with Schweighofer’s handwritten note explaining that the portrait is of him in character as August Nippes for the comedy …

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  • Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.

    # 50829

    ANGERER, Victor

    Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.

    Wien : Victor Angerer, [1903]. Silver albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 163 x 103 mm; signed by the sitter in ink in the image lower right: ‘Gisi Timony’; verso with the Angerer studio imprint and with a presentation inscription by Timony: ‘Meinen lieben Collegen Herrn Emil Norini, zur freundlichen Errinerung, Wien 5. IV. …

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  • All this and Bevin too

    # 50607

    CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)

    All this and Bevin too

    With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …

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  • The Champagne Vine Country and Champagne Wine

    # 50608

    CHAPAZ, George and HENRIOT, Alexandre

    The Champagne Vine Country and Champagne Wine

    [Epernay] : Moet et Chandon, circa 1920. Narrow octavo, illustrated wrappers, map of the Champagne region inside upper wrapper, pp. 32, illustrated. A charming English language tourist guide to the Champagne region, printed in Reims, and published by arguably the region’s most well known champagne houses, Moet et Chandon.

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  • Athenian democracy

    # 50857

    JONES, A. H. M.

    Athenian democracy

    Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1969 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (a few spots of foxing), pp. viii; 198, extensive underlining in pen. From the library of Australian art academic Jenny Zimmer, signed by her on the endpaper.

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  • A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

    # 49386

    A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

    [Catalonia, c.1345-1420]. Wooden coffret (or casket), 80 x 200 x 175 mm, covered with moulded and incised leather, metal mounts decorated with rosette details, three clasps, drop handles at either side, three hinges; lined with original tawed leather, stained pink; some portions of the leather with minor losses revealing the wooden structure beneath. This is …

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  • ­[REVERSE-GLASS BINDING]. Hommage aux dames.

    # 49624

    JANET, Pierre Claude Louis (1788 - 1840)

    ­[REVERSE-GLASS BINDING]. Hommage aux dames.

    Paris : Louis Janet, 1830. Duodecimo (121 x 78 mm), in a rare contemporary binding consisting of a hand-coloured engraved title image, tortoiseshell-pattern border and lower panel, the upper and lower panels presented under glass; gilt and gauffred cartonnage edging, gilt spine with floral pattern; green endpapers; pp. [28], [14 – including a folding calendar …

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  • The Politics of Aristotle

    # 50854

    BARKER, Ernest (translation.)

    The Politics of Aristotle

    Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket, pp. lxxvi; 411, a fine copy. Sir Ernest Barker’s translation and commentary is the definitive English framework for understanding Aristotelian political theory.

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  • Plato's Republic. A philosophical commentary

    # 50860

    CROSS, R. C. and WOOZLEY, A. D.

    Plato’s Republic. A philosophical commentary

    London : Macmillan, 1964. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, in price clipped dustjacket (slightly rubbed and marked), pp. xvi; 295, internally clean, a fine copy. From the library of Australian art academic Jenny Zimmer, signed by her on the endpaper.

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  • A study of Cassius Dio

    # 50859

    MILLAR, Fergus

    A study of Cassius Dio

    Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1966 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket (slightly silverfished), pp. xiv; 299, some neat underlining, else a fine copy. From the library of Australian art academic Jenny Zimmer, signed by her on the endpaper.

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  • [WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower

    # 50551

    DE CASTELLA, Hubert (1825 - 1907)

    [WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower

    Translated, with preface and notes, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. Melbourne : Mast Gully Press, 1979. Limited edition of 750 copies (plus an additional 50 copies in quarter morocco by Bayntun of Bath), this copy out of series. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 75 pp, illustrated, a fine copy which may have slight edge wear or …

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  • World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    # 50463

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

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