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Frankfurt am Main, Leopold Cassella & Co. 1905 X, 397 pp. + 2 plates, With 34 pages with numerous tipped-in colour wool samples (complete). Publisher's half cloth, minor wear, occasional light foxing, overall a very good copy

Lund 1954-1965. 4to. Ca 2300 pp + more than 200 plates. Printed wrappers. Ca 130 papers in English, German, Italian and French by i.a. Arvid Andrén and Einar Gjerstad. (Acta Instituti Romani regni Sueciae. Series in 4:o 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 39).

New York, Horizon Press 1981. Enlarged edition with twenty-four additional photographs. Deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies. 27x23,5 cm. XV, (1) pp. + 68 plate-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum-backed gilt-stamped blue boards, housed in a blue linen slipcase. Slight fading to slipcase, inscribed on half-title, otherwise a very good copy. Printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this is no. 188, signed by Helen Levitt.

William Rider and Son 1914. XXXVI, 353, (1); IX, 352, VII, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth. Vol. 1 with small tear at head spine, and between two sections, between p. 112 and 113 slightly loose in the binding. (See image.) Vol. 2 with slightly bumped lower backside corner and 1 cm tear in cloth at upper frontside corner. Both volumes lightly bumped at head and foot spines. Fore edges untrimmed. Both volumes has previous owner's name and date in ink on first free endpapers (which are slightly discoloured in both cases), exlibris and small sticker from Foyles bookstore, London, at first paste-down endpapers.

Collegio Musarum Paltheniano, Francofurti 1601. (8), 910, 914-1014 (irregular pagination) pp. Contemporary vellum. Piece of title-leaf cut out, not affecting any text, underlines in the text, both old and more modern. Front end-papers with old signatures and book-plates.

Hamburg und Leipzig, A.H. Holle 1759. (8), 430 pp. Title with engraved vignette. Contemporary half calf, rather worn, small damage to head and foot of spine and small part of upper joint. Book-plate and gilt initials on upper cover of Swedish book-collector Hjalmar Lundgren. Also with another, older book-plate inside upper cover. One leaf with torn corner, a few stains but overall very good inside.

Á Berne chez l'auteur/Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1955, 1968 30,5 x 21,5 cm. (14), (8); (10), (10) pp. + a total of 572 plates. Publisher's printed wrappers in glassinine jackets. Spines just slightly creased and slanted, front cover of colume one with small (ca 1 cm) tear at lower edge, glassinine jackets somewhat torn and creased. The first volume of this catalogue raisonné was first published in 1933, the first volume of this set is the second printing from 1955.

Kiøbenhavn, C.G. Glasings Efterleverske 1756 Första upplagan. 4:o. (8), 288, (24) s. + 30 graverade planscher (av 31). Vinjetter i texten. Samtida halvfranskt band. Inlagan är genomgående mycket brunad, många planscher med revor, alla sköra. Tyvärr saknas 1 plansch och en dubbelsidig tabell.

San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press 1954. 38,5x25,5 cm. (112) pp. With pictures designed and cut by Mary Grabhorn. Publisher's claf-backed boards. Corners a bit bumped but overall a very good copy. Printed in only 180 copies. Composed in inkunabula type founded by the Societa Nebiolo of Turin. Paper made by hand at the Tuckenhay Mills of Arthur Millbourn, Totnes, England.

New York 1951-1964. Half cloth, 14 volumes. February 1951, July 1955, January 1957 and August 1964 missing.

Lund, Berlingska Boktryckeriet 1822. XVI, 266; (2), 232 s. + 3 graverade, handkolorerade och utvikbara fågelplanscher. Bundna i ett samtida halvfranskt band, röda snitt. Ryggen lite nött, skadad upptill vid falsen. Ett blad med liten reva, ett blad med stor reva, några blad med marginalfläck. En plansch delvis brunad pga av kontakt med närmaste textblad. Huvudsakligen ändå ett bra exemplar. Insidan av främre pärm med namnteckning: Henrik Johan Hartwich, försättsblad med ägarblindstämpel: E.O. Regnstrand, Vadstena, även titelsidan med svag namnteckning av den sistnämnde.

Publisher's red wrappers (15 volumes). In varying conditions, but overall a very good set. Collection of 15 translations of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung" ("The Little Red Book") into Portugese, Albanian, Thai, Nepalese, Bengali, Romanian, Esperanto, Croatian, Indonesian, Polish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Italian, Swahili and Burmese. The majority printed 1967-1969.

London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne 1820 4:o. XIII, (3), 149, (1), XXV pp. + 20 plates. Near modern cloth, dark red spine. Shaved upper edge, otherwise nearly uncut. Some leaves partly frayed in the margins. Some offsetting from plates to text, some spotting. Unfortunately the folding frontispiece is missing from this copy.

Edinburg & London, William Blackwood and sons 1848 Oblong 4:o. 16 pp. + engraved frontispiece + 98 engraved plates and maps. Contemporary half calf. End-paper and title-page with contemporary owner signature. Overall a very good copy. Unfortunately the folding map of Europe is nor present in this copy.

Berlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus [1904]. Folio. (8), 70 pp. + armorial frontispiece + 36 plates. Cloth, printed covers bound in. A very good copy.

Stockholm, Eckersteinska boktryckeriet 1844. Första upplagan. (4), 92, (2) s. + litograferat titelblad + 3 utvikbara litograferade kartblad + 4 litograferade planscher (varav 3 utvikbara). Senare halvfranskt band, främre omslag medbundet. Ett rent och attraktivt exemplar. Två av planscherna återfinns på samma blad.

Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth 1892. 47x32 cm. (12) pp. + 30 double-pages plates (all called for). Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Binding rather worn, upper cover soiled, plates in very good condition. Schadow (1764-1850), one of the major German sculptors of the classicist period. This is a detailed osteological atlas.

Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1890. First edition. XIV, (2), 376 pp. With 3 maps (including one folding map at the rear), 20 heliographic plates and 19 figures in the text. Publisher's decorated green cloth with marbled edges. Spine just slightly slanted, spine ends and corners partly bumped, front joint with shallow split measuring ca 7 cm. First free end paper with owner's rubber stamp, owner's signature on the half-title leaf, edges of the title-leaf somewhat yellowed. First edition of German geographer Hans Meyer's account of his expeditions to East Africa and his attempts to climb the Kilimanjaro.

Amsterdam, Jacobu de Veer voor Jan ten Hoorn 1694. 4:o. (16), 318, (2) pp. + 90 engraved plates (mostly folding). With large title vignette. Contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, hinges a bit weak. Unfortunately 6 folding plates seem to be missing from this copy. Book-plate and modern signature.

Amsterdam, R & J Wetstein & G. Smith 1727 Fourth edition. 210; 153, (3) pp. + 98 engraved plates (of 99?). Contemporary calf, spine worn, new title label on spine. Unfortunately one plates is missing from this copy (pl. 16 in the fifth section), something is also missing from the beginning (half-title?, frontispiece?), title-leaf is mounted with small damages (no loss of text), one leaf with marginal repair, some leaves a little stained, mostly marginal, free end-papers missing, otherwise very good.

Leiden, Brill 1959-1973. XXII, (6), 357; X, (4), 331; XI, (4), 505; VIII, (4), 205; XV, (1), 417 pp. Publisher's cloth. A very good set. The contents of this set: 1: The Pentateuch According to Targum Onkelos. 2: The Former Prophets According to Targum Jonathan. 3: The Latter Prophets According to Targum Jonathan. 4a: The Hagiographa, Transition from Translation to Midrash. 4b: The Targum and the Hebrew Bible.

London, William Charlton Wright 1835. Third edition. Engraved title, 148, 4 (music), 149-198, (2) (publ cat) pp. + large folding engraved frontispiece + 1 folding engraved plate. Later, patterned covers, spine repaired at top, a bit loose in binding. Minor, marginell worming throughout, publ. Cat. Leaf repaired. Overall very good. From the preface; "this book is adapted to lay about in drawing-rooms - to be read in gardens and groves - to ornament the boudoir - for amusement in evening parties, as an innocent substitute for cards - to be consulted in every mood of mind and temper." Scarce.

Stockholm, J.P. Lindh 1797. (6), 128 s. + 3 utvikbara kopparstuckna planscher. Lite senare skinnband med ryggförgyllning. En plansch med liten reva, annars ett mycket fint och rent exemplar.

Kongl. Tryckeriet 1719 (8), 148, (24) s. Senare halvpergamentband. Titelsidan med liten lapp klistrad över en gammal namnteckning, ytterligare två namnteckningar överstrukna. En del fläckar i marginalen men huvudsakligen gott skick. Insidan av bakre pärm med inklistrad maskinskriven offert på detta exemplar från Björck & Börjesson 1941, där den betecknas som "mycket sällsynt". Exlibris. Den romerske historikern Jordanes sammanfattning av Cassiodorus förlorade historia över de gotiska folken, vars ursprung här placeras i Skandinavien (Scandza). En av göticismens grundkällor.

Stockholm, O. Enaeus 1713 Folio. (4), 8, 11-210 s.(s. 9-10 överhoppade i pagineringen) + graverat titelblad + 6 graverade planscher (2 i mindre format, monterade i texten). Rikt illustrerad i texten med träsnitt och kopparstick, genealogiska tabeller, anfanger och vinjetter. Modernt halvfranskt band, utan ryggtitel. Inlagan med lättare fuktrand i övre marginalen och en del småfläckar men i stort sett en bra inlaga. Peringskiöld tar här på sig den ambitiösa uppgiften att reda ut den något krångliga genalogin från Adam till Jesus. På insidan av främre pärm finns en äldre handskriven etikett monterad med L. Manderströms namnteckning.