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Folle-Farine

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Folle-Farine

"only the dust from the corn ... the impalpable cloud which goes forth to gleam golden in the sun a moment, and then is scattered; on the wind; into the water; up in the sunlight; down in the mud..."

The Structure of a Modern Economy. The United States, 1929-89. With the Assistance of Meng Chi.

BOULDING (Kenneth E.)

The Structure of a Modern Economy. The United… 1993.

Employment Policy. The Crucial Years 1939-1955.

TOMLINSON (Jim).

Employment Policy. The Crucial Years 1939-1955, 1987.

Ethics and the History of Philosophy. Selected Essays.

Ethics and the History of Philosophy. Selected Essays, 1952.

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.

WITTGENSTEIN (Ludwig).

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, 1956.

WITTGENSTEIN’S MOST EXTENSIVE WORK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS.

Puck

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Puck, 1887.

"I have studied life, I assure you; and widely too, though I am only a tiny Maltese ... though I never saw Malta."

Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.

STRAWSON (Peter Frederick).

Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, 1959.

Économie politique, ouvrage traduit de l'allemand par Henri Jouffroy Revue et annoté sur la traduction par M. Fritot.

SCHMALZ (Thedor Anton Heinrich).

Économie politique, ouvrage traduit de l'allemand par Henri… 1826.

Man as a Subject for Science. August Comte Memorial Lecture 6. Delivered on 7 February at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

AYER (Alfred J.)

Man as a Subject for Science. August Comte… 1964.

NANSEN (Fridtjof).

" Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage… 1897.

Cecil Castlemaine's Gage; or, The Story of a Broidered Shield

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Cecil Castlemaine's Gage; or, The Story of a… 1879.

"Cecil Castlemaine was the beauty of her county and her line..."

Narrative of the Loss of the Esk and Lively, Greenland Whalers, by which Sixty-five Persons Perished;

SCORESBY (Rev. William).

Narrative of the Loss of the Esk and… 1826.

A VERY RARE SCORESBY NARRATIVE

The Worst Journey in the World

CHERRY-GARRARD (Apsley).

The Worst Journey in the World, 1922.

"A WAR IS LIKE THE ANTARCTIC ... THERE IS NO GETTING OUT OF IT WITH HONOUR AS LONG AS YOU CAN PUT ONE FOOT BEFORE THE OTHER."

Two Men in the Antarctic.

BAGSHAWE (Thomas Wyatt).

Two Men in the Antarctic, 1939.

PRESENTATION COPY WITH THE DUSTJACKET

To the Far East on a Tandem.

To the Far East on a Tandem, 1952.

A CHARMING TALE OF MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE BY TANDEM BICYCLE

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.
[Italy, seventeenth century].

[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo. [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.

Principles of Political Economy with some of their Application to Social Philosophy.

MILL (John Stuart).

Principles of Political Economy with some of their… 1848.

THE UNDISPUTED BIBLE OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINE - UNRESTORED IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH

Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery; in Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill's Celebrated 'Article on government'.

THOMPSON (William). & [WHEELER (Anna).]

Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women,… 1825.

“ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY FEMINIST LITERATURE”

Unended Quest. An Intellectual Autobiography.

POPPER (Karl R.)

Unended Quest. An Intellectual Autobiography, 1980.

INSCRIBED TWICE BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS PERSONAL SECRETARY

GET OUT OF THE WAY. As the new Premier--has now nail'd the old Premier (up out of the way)--to the mast : and fastened the hatches down--upon the un-COMMON vagabonds--below in the hold...

[EAST (Sir Edward Hyde)], & BRIERLY, publisher.

GET OUT OF THE WAY. As the new Premier--has now… 1835.

AN UNRECORDED SATIRE CONCERNING COFFEE, CHICORY AND SUGAR

Handcuff Secrets

HOUDINI (Harry). & [HARDEEN (Theo).]

Handcuff Secrets, 1910.

WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUDINI & EPHEMERA

Wanda

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Wanda, 1890.

"But no lover was there. The Countess Wanda dismissed all lovers; she was wedded to the memory of her brother, and to her own liberty and power."

Détail sur la Navigation aux côtes de Saint-Domingue et dans ses Débouquemens.

[CHASTENET-PUYSÉGUR (Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne) Comte de].

Détail sur la Navigation aux côtes de Saint-Domingue… 1787.

PRESENTED BY THE FORMER GOVERNOR GENERAL

The Stock Market Crash - And After.

FISHER (Irving).

The Stock Market Crash - And After, 1930.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River, in North America; its Destruction in 1815 and 1816; and the massacre of Governor Semple and his party...

[HALKETT (John).]

Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon… 1817.

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE'S COPY

Memoirs of the life of Anthony Benezet

VAUX (Roberts).

Memoirs of the life of Anthony Benezet, 1817.

EARLY ABOLITIONIST HISTORIOGRAPHY - THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF BENEZET

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S. Thoma petitis ostenditur. Pars prior: Theologica, pars posterior: Symbolica.
St. Gall, Jakob Müller (for the monastery), 1695

SFONDRATI (Celestinus)

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema. Cui additae sunt imagines mortis, illustratae epigrammatis G. Aemylii.

CHYTRAEUS (David)

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...

PARRY (William Edward).

Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of… 1826.

AN EXCELLENT SET OF PARRY'S VOYAGES

Joppa to Jericho.

H.M.S. ROYAL OAK.

Joppa to Jericho, 1928.

Rare Holy Land travelogue printed in Malta

Press photograph of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.

UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER.

Press photograph of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, 1945.

A Compendium of Military Discipline,

BLACKWELL (John).

A Compendium of Military Discipline, 1726.

WITH PLATES BY WILLIAM HOGARTH

The World Jones Made. [bound tête-bêche with:] Agent of the Unknown, by Margaret St. Clair.

DICK (Philip K.)

The World Jones Made. [bound tête-bêche with:] Agent… 1956.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF DICK’S SECOND PUBLISHED NOVEL

The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.

JAMES (William).

The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in… 1902.

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL STUDIES OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA

Development of Logic.

KNEALE (William). & KNEALE (Martha).

Development of Logic, 1962.

A Short Historical Review of the Life of the Egbas from 1829 to 1930.

FOLARIN (Adebesin).

A Short Historical Review of the Life of… 1931.

A RARE LOCAL HISTORY PRINTED IN ABEOKUTA

The Outlines of Ibadan History.

AKINYELE (Chief Isaac Babalola).

The Outlines of Ibadan History, 1946.

A PRIMER FOR NON-NIGERIANS

L'Arabie Contemporaine avec la Description du Pèlerinage de la Meque.

D'AVRIL (Adolphe).

L'Arabie Contemporaine avec la Description du Pèlerinage de… 1868.

WITH THE HANDSOME MAP

Chasses et Pêches aux Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

[CAPERON (Maurice).]

Chasses et Pêches aux Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, 1885.

RARE ST. PIERRE IMPRINT

Supplement a l'Affice du Mercredi 13 Février, 1765 [caption title].

MONCEAUX (Jean), editor.

Supplement a l'Affice du Mercredi 13 Février, 1765… 1765.

A VERY EARLY SAINT-DOMINGUE IMPRINT

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

WITTGENSTEIN (Ludwig).

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, 1956.

Resolution Urging Clemency to Sir Roger Casement.

[CASEMENT (Roger)] & O'GORMAN (James), Senator.

Resolution Urging Clemency to Sir Roger Casement, 1916.

SIR ROGER CASEMENT THE REVOLUTIONARY HERO