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Tokyo & San Francisco, Japan Publications 1972. First edition. XI, (1), 284 pp. With colour plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's purple silk cloth, dust-jacket. A very good copy.

Paris 1754 First edition. 12:o. XII, (2), 420 pp. Contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, three leaves with small marginal repairs, one leaf with loss of two letters, otherwise fine.

Roma, Ermanno Loescher 1895. XVIII, (2), 537 pp. + 4 fold out maps in colour and Errata-page. Illustrated. Cloth with gilt titles on spine. Obituary of Bóttego from Italian newspaper bound in at rear end. Margin tears on maps. A very good copy. Vittorio Bóttego (1860 – 1897), Italian army officer and one of the first Western explorers of Jubaland in the Horn of Africa.

Åbo 1810 (2), XVI, 4l2 s. Samtida halvfranskt band med ryggförgyllning, ryggen lite spräckt längs med, inlagan delvis fläckig, några blad med liten reva, ett hörn rivet, lösa försättsblad saknas, äldre namnteckningar på insidan av främre pärm.

London, George Routledge and Sons 1885. 108 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's illustrated hardcover. Spine worn and partly damaged, internally very good. Hugh Walpole's copy with his book-plate from Brackenburn.

Hamburg, De Gruyter 1933. XIII, (1), 208 pp. + XIV plates with reproductions of drawings + 8 plates with reproductions of a total of 26 photographs. With illustrations in the text. Publisher's printed wrappers. Spine and covers slightly yellowed, rear cover slightly soiled, spine with a neatly hand-lettered figure in ink, else fine. Rare and important work on this people living in western Tanzania. Comprising a total of three volumes, this is volume II.

A Londres, et se trouve a Paris, Chez Merlin 1769. X, 149, (1); (4), 144 pp. Bound in one, contemporary calf, spine gilt, red edges. Unfortunately one leaf (141/142 in second part) has a rather big hole with loss of text, also margin of this leaf and the prevoius leaf is damaged, othewise a very well kept and clean copy.

Quartet Books 1985, 1987, 1988. British first editions. XVII, 293, (2); XVI, 276, (2); XVIII, 301, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth with dust-jackets. A near fine set, with only some insignificant creasing to d-j:s at head spines, two very small tears to back of d-j on volume 3. Interior of volume 3 slightly yellowed. Translated by Cedric Belfrage.

Stockholm, P.G. Berg 1845-1851. (4), 758, (2); 872; 860 (s. 232-233 överhoppade i pag.); (2), 440 s. Samtida halvfranska band, nötta ryggar och hörn, första volymen i avvikande band, de tre följande volymerna med liten fuktrand i början, enstaka lagerfläckar, annars bra.

Amsterdam, 1774 (2), 178, IV, 179-182, V-VIII, (2) pp. + 1 engraved title-leaf, 4 engraved vignettes and 1 engraved plate. Contemporary half-leather binding with sparsely gilt spine. Head of spine slightly chipped, front joints with cracks (1-2,5 cm) at spine ends, interior with some faint occasional foxing. With Hungarian banquer and book collector Arpad Plesch's book-plate on paste-down endpaper.

Leipzig 1909-1912. Vol. 1 and 2 third ed., vol. 3 first and second ed. VIII, (4), 472; VI, (2), 624; VIII, (2), 484 pp. Publisher's half cloth, minor wear to spines and joints.

Quedlinburg & Leipzig, Gottfried Basse 1824. Second, revised edition. VI, (2), 144 pp. Contemporary marbled boards. A very good copy.

À Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, 1786 Second edition. (4), 212, (2); (4), 202, (4); (2), 156, (4) pp. + 3 engraved frontispieces. Elegant, contemporary half-calf with yellow tinted edges, marbled boards and lavishly gilt spines. Corners somewhat bumped and rubbed, title-leaves with discretely crossed out signatures, two of them with a couple of professionally restored chips. Interiors with a couple of tiny chips at corners and edges, part one with some soiling and dampstaining to pages 29-36.

Ars 1942. 43x34 cm. 44 s. Illustrerad med inklistrade planscher, ill i texten. Häftad, handbunden. Ars utkom endast med ett nummer, tryckt i 500 exemplar. Med ett originalträsnitt av Adja Yunkers och ett originallitografi av Sven X:et Erixson. Bidrag av Gunnar Ekelöf, Paul Valéry, Stig Ahlgren, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, m.fl.

Göttingen, Vandenhoek und Ruprecht 1788 (6), 831 pp. With an occasional small illustration in the text. Sewn in contemporary wrappers, uncut, unopened save for a few pages. Contemporarily hand-written title to spine. A few pages with creased corners. A full year, containing 52 issues of this magazine with reports on new publications, short essays and anecdotes. Med en text av Johan Ludvig Hård (s. 737-40, 753-55): ''Ueber die misgeglükte revolution in Schweden im Jahr 1756, vom Graf von Hordt selbst geschrieben, und von seiner Teilnahmer daran'', om sin medverkan i drottning Lovisa Ulrikas misslyckade statskupp 1756, som han var med att planlägga. Efter avslöjandet tvingades han på flykten och kom att ta tjänst i Preussen hos Fredrik den store.

London, Oxford University Press 1934 30x23 cm. 236 pp. + 1 colour frontispiece. Ill. in the text. Wrappers, somewhat spotted copy. (The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. New series, publication 1).

Camera Mainichi & The Mainichi Graphic 1970. 36x25,5 cm. 64, (2) pp. Mainly illustrations. Soft cover. A very good copy. Shinoyama (1940-2024), Japanes photographer, maybe best known for having photographed the covers for two of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's albums.

Stockholm 1981-1983. (7), 986; 987-2090; 375 s. Förlagets klotband.

P.A. Norstedt & Söner 1840. Första häftet i andra upplagan, andra häftet i första upplagan. (2), 120, (8), 224, (1) s. Elegant, samtida halvfranskt band med marmorerade pärmpapper, sprängda snitt samt rikt guldornerad rygg med röd ryggtiteletikett och tre upphöjda bind. Ryggfoten med liten nagg intill bakre falsen. Första delen med större, genomgående fuktfläck i inre marginalerna, andra delen med mindre, genomgående fuktfläck i övre hörnet. Ett rätt så fint exemplar, anmärkningarna till trots. Anonymt utgivna betraktelser över 1840 års riksdag av akademiledamoten Johan Eric Rydquist (1800-1877). De två delarna sammanbundna i en volym.

Tokyo National Museum 1985. 36x25,5 cm. XIV, 452, 16 pp. Richly illustrated. Publisher's cloth, dust-jacket. Jacket with a few small tears, otherwise a very good copy. Text mainly in Japanese.

Lausanne, H.L. Mermod 1941. 26,5x20,5 cm. (1), 18, (1) leaves + 8 plates. Printed wrappers, protective glassine covers preserved. A very good copy. Facsimile reprint of the original manuscript. Printed in 232 copies, this is no. 57.

Örebro 1881-1883. XVI, 532, (2); XX, 548, (2) s. 240 ill. i texten, många helsides. Förlagets röda rikt dekorerade klotband, ryggarna med smärre defekter men huvudsakligen en fin uppsättning.

Paris, F. Barois 1722 Third edition. Small 8:o. (16), 385, (5); (2), 347 pp. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt, top of spines slightly damaged, slightly worn. Vertot (1655-1735), French writer of history, highly esteemed by his contemporaries.

London, The Fortune Press [1947?] 32 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, no dust-jacket. A very good copy.

Paris, chez Barrois l'ainé 1812. (2), 547-806 pp. + 18 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, red edges. Overall very good.