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8vo, (245 x 150 mm); 404 pp., 9 colour maps, original printed wrappers, minor rubbing and fading to spine and edges. Maps in mint condition.
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First edition. Two vols. 4to, publishers half morocco green boards, with gilt ornaments and title to spine, sun-faded as usual; top edges gilt. Many b/w illustration plates. Vol. I: lii, 313 pp., Vol. II: lxiv, 480 pp.
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First edition; 2 vols, oblong folio (330 x 260mm, 13 x 10 1/8 in); orchestral score with libretto in Italian and German, vol. I with additional engraved vignette title by Bolt after Kinninger (foxed) of the supper scene between Commendatore and Don Giovanni, printed title with attractive ink presentation to upper corner margin, dated 1877) and 2 following pp. of text, engraved musical score 6-292pp, vol. II with printed title and engraved musical score 294-590pp, with separate printed divisional title 'Anhang von spaeter eingelegten Stuecken', some sporadic light foxing and minor staining, mostly to final leaf of vol. I, some leaves trimmed at upper edge with loss to pagination in vol.2 but in the main clean and bright; modern diced calf, upper covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, most attractive.
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4to (285 x 230 mm); engraved vignette title with portrait of John Gay, Table of the Songs, Dramatis Personne 1777, Introduction, the playscript, and music score with libretto, toned, a few random spots or marks, otherwise very good; later full polished calf, scuffed, marked and bumped but very sound.
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[WEIZMANN, Chaim].Letter from the President of Israel to Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett,
Typed letter signed by Dr C. Weizmann; 1 leaf, 4to. Text in Hebrew and English, mounted with a black and white photograph signed and dated by Weizmann in green ink in the upper left corner.
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First U.S. edition; 8vo; inscribed by the playwright on front free endpaper; publisher's taupe cloth, dust-jacket, lightly dust-soiled, chips, creases and short tears to extremities, the latter mostly to spine ends, otherwise internally fine.
£225 -
First edition; small 4to (205 x 205 mm.); frontispiece and illustrations; publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket, a very good copy.
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Caruso seated with right hand holding cigarette and leaning on cane, signed boldly and diagonally upwards, 85 x 140mm (3 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins), mounted, 240 x 1295 mm (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins), near-fine.
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Fourth edition. 8vo; original illuminated and embossed cloth boards, worn, with some minor tears to spine. Stains and tears to margins of several leaves, slightly browned. Text in German. Dedication in Herzl's hand to his wife's sister on front endpaper. [3], 343, [5] pp.
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4to, (238 x 155 mm). Original printed wrappers, fine and clean. Previous owner's inscription in pencil inside front wrapper. 14 pp.
£200