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FABLES DE LA FONTAINE
Written by Jean De La Fontaine. Illustrated by Pierre Noury.
Stock no. 2135787
Published by Ernest Flammarion. Circa 1947. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text in French. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Stains and fading to rear cover. Name in ink to front pastedown. Page browning and a few grubby marks.

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A FOUR-TONGUED ALPHABET
Written by Ruth Brown. Illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Stock no. 2135469
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1991. Very good condition.

An alphabet in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. Yellow glazed pictorial boards, vivid colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862643279. Spine is faded. A few light marks to covers. Contents are lovely and bright!

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FERRARI CATALOGUE RAISONNE 1946-81 VOLUME 1
Written by Augusto Costantino.
Stock no. 2135418
Published by Automobilia. 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Volume 1 ONLY of a 2 volume set. Red cloth with prancing horse vignette. Text in English, French and Italian. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Light edge-creasing to wrapper.

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LE RENARD NIGAUD ET LA POULE AVISEE
No author listed. Illustrated by B. Le Fanu; G. Cochet.
Stock no. 1321767
Published by Larousse. Circa 1930. Very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board and title-page illustration by Le Fanu. Colour illustrations throughout by Cochet. Text is in French. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed and lightly scratched. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Edge of front free-endpaper is slightly ragged (binding error?).

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A WELSH LEECH BOOK OR LLYFR O FEDDYGINIAETH
Written by Timothy Lewis.
Stock no. 1822426
Published by D. Salesbury Hughes. 1st thus 1914. Almost very good condition.

Faithfully reproduced from the original manuscript. Edited by Timothy Lewis. Limited Edition of 300. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Brown flower patterned endpapers. Introduction in English, recipes etc in Welsh. Boards damp stained. Corners rubbed and worn. Joints a little weak and starting to crack. Damp staining to pastedowns. Text block browned. Scattered foxing throughout. Joints pulled but binding is generally tight.

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ZAGATO MILANO (1919-2009)
Written by Leonardo Acerbi; et al.
Stock no. 2135133
Published by Giorgio Nada Editore. 1st ITALY 2009. Very good condition.

Large square format. Glazed boards. Colour and b/w photographs throughout. Text in Italian and English. ISBN: 9788879114875. Top 1" of spine is bumped, with what appears to be a repair. Bumping also to other corners and base of spine. The odd margin mark, else contents are lovely and bright!

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VISITE A LA FERME
No author listed.
Stock no. 1321166
Published by A. Capendu. Good condition.

Large format, pictorial cardwraps. Each page has a large colour illustration of farmyard animals with their names below (in french). Covers worn and creased. Spine worn. Small triangular piece of surface paper missing to spine edge of front cover. Grubby marks to page margins.

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EIN LEITFADEN FUR DEN BLANK WAFFEN SAMMLER
Written by Rudiger Franz.
Stock no. 1821967
Published by Journal-Verlag. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

A collectors guide to Prussian-Reichsdeutsche bayonets and mountable side rifles. Part 1 only 1800-1915. Text in German. Blue boards. B/w photos. Spine lightly browned. Boards a little grubby. Text block lightly browned. Musty odour present.

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CIRCUITO DEL GARDA QUINDICI VOLTE VIA!
Written by Giancarlo Cavallini.
Stock no. 2134655
Published by Edizioni Negri. 1st ITALY 2001. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, white titles. Text in Italian and English. B/w photos. Small amount of surface paper damage to couple of pages in prelims, where pages were slightly stuck together. Wrapper is edge-creased with grubby marks; price sticker taped to front flap.

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PANZERKORPS GROSSDEUTSCHLAND
Written by Helmuth Spaeter.
Stock no. 1821840
Published by Podzun-Pallas. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth boards, white title to spine. B/w photos. Text in German. ISBN: 3790902144. Top corners lightly bumped. Text block lightly browned. A few fingering marks to prelims. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has a small closed tear across the spine (no loss). Musty odour present.

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THE ASHKENAZI HAGGADAH
Written by Joel Ben Simeon; Feibusch Ashkenazi; Eleazar Ben Judah Of Worms; David Goldstein.
Stock no. 1821635
Published by Steimatzky. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition.

A Hebrew manuscript of the mid-15th century from the collections of the British Library. Written and illuminated by Joel Ben Simeon called Feibusch Ashkenazi with a commentary attributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms. Introduction, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by Goldstein. Very large format. Colour illustrations. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles, English title to front board, Hebrew to rear board. Some text in Hebrew. Small mark to lower edge of front board. Gilt title to spine a little rubbed. Contained in matching publisher's slipcase which has some very light fading.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1320489
Published by Peter Hansens Forlag. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Text in Danish. Limited edition. Large format, green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Each of the 51 tipped-in colour plates are mounted on a separate sheet of heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Except for the frontis, the plates are all bound together after the text. This is copy NO. 180 with prineted signature of Arthur Rackham. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Ink writing to front free-endpaper. Joints cracked. Browning to contents.

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