Anon.

Photo Album: Russia, Germany, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, USA, Italy, Malta et al.

1889-1891. Oblong Album: 25 x 34 cm. 76 hand numbered pages with 100+ original photographs from various locations, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Norwegian Fjords and Glaciers, Bullfights in Madrid, Algiers, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, Pompeji, Pisa, Sorrento, Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm et al. Various photo sizes, many full page. See images for better understanding. Contemporary half leather over green textured cloth. Gilt title on front board. Gilt decorations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Leather dried out and flaky. Internally mildly dust dulled and occasional mild foxing. Some of the photos on the fist few pages with a purple tinge (see images). A fascinating travel album with photos taken between 1889 and 1891. Most photos with hand written explanatory notes.

Bainville, Jacques.

Dictators. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1940. 20 x 14 cm. 268 pages. Original green cloth with silver titles and decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine faded. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Name of previous onwer (‘Michael Tierney’) on half title page. Internally clean. The Life and Letters Series No. 96.

Bannerman, David A.

The Canary Islands. Their History, Natural History and Scenery. An Account of an Ornithologist’s Camping Trips to the Archipelago.

First Edition. London, Gurney and Jackson, 1922. 23 x 15 cm. xv, 365 pages. With Illustrations, photographs and Maps, some folding. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Bookplate of Alan Francis Brooke on front paste down. Author’s inscription on front free end paper: ‘To Alan Brooke from his friend David Bannerman’.

Beattie, William (text) / Bartlett, W.H. (illustrations).

Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views taken expressly for this Work by W.H. Bartlett; Esq.

First Edition. London, George Virtue, 1836. 27 x 21 cm. Vol.1: (4), 188 pages, engraved title plus 57 Plates (see comments!) / Vol.2: (2), 152 pages, engraved title plus 48 Plates, plus a folding map of Switzerland in the back. Contemporary half morroco over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and edges. Gilt titles and decorations on spine. Good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges age darkened. Rear free end paper of Vol.1 and front free end paper of Vol.2 missing. Some tissue guards missing. Names of previous owners neatly inscribed in ink. Internally with some browning, foxing and large visible damp stains on most pages, incl. Plates. (see images).

Blythe, Ronald.

Places – An Anthology of Britain.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981. 24cm x 16cm. XI, 238 pages. With 27 illustrations in black/white. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Bodley, John Edward Courtenay.

France.

New and Revised Edition. London, Macmillan and Co., 1902. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. xxxix, 668 pages plus four pages publishers list. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened. Includes a loosely inserted post card from France to ‘President Tierney University College Dublin’. Also some newspaper articles.

Bonjour, E. / Offler, H.S. / Potter, G.R.

A Short History of Switzerland.

First Edition. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1952. 21 x 13 cm. vii, 388 pages. With B&W Maps in Text. Original dark cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. Name of previous owner (‘Michael Tierney’) on front free end paper.

Brogan, D.W.

French Personalities and Problems.

First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1946. 19 x 13 cm. 228 pages. Original red cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping. Spine faded. Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner (‘Michael Tierney’) on front free end paper. Internally clean. Some paper clips loosely inserted.

[Burt, Edward].

Letters from A Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London. Containing the Description of a Capital Town in that Northern Country, with an Account of many uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants: Likewise An Account of the Highlands, with the Customs and Manners of the Highlanders. To which is added, A Letter relating to the Military Ways among the Mountains, began in the Year 1726. The Whole interspersed with Facts and Circumstances intirely New to the Generality of People in England, and little known in the Southern Parts of Scotland.

The Second Edition. In Two Volumes. London, Printed for I. Pottinger, 1759. 19 x 12 cm. Vol.1: x, 344 pages. With a Plan of Inverness and one further Plate / Vol.2: 368 pages and three Plates. Contemporary calf with gilt line decorations. Morocco label with gilt title. Very good condition. Severely rubbed and bumped. Joints and hinges cracked. Binding sound. Text block complete. Five Plates missing from Volume one. Age darkened throughout. Full of neat annotations in the book and on losely inserted pages. See images. A very interesting copy.

Cahill, Thomas.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter.

First edition. New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2003. 15 x 21.5cm. 304 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckle edges. Excellent condition, like new. From the series ‘The Hinges of History’ (Book Four).