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Mateu, Julia. Connemara - Trenta Dibuixos.
Galeria Trece. Barcelona, 1983. Attractive large folio, 2 volumes in slip case, with drawings of Connemara landscape and
people by Julia Mateu, prologue by Manuel de Pedrolo, poems by Dorothy Molloy, published in Catalan and English. No. 31
of 300. This edition one of sixty with an additional set of the 30 drawings in sanguine. Printed on handmade paper, bound
in sackcloth in slipcase. Accompanied by an exhibition catalogue of Masteu’s drawings, 1972-73.
13_ x 17_in. (34.29 x 44.45cm)
Estimate €200-€300 £150-£220
Large Image & Place Bid 404403
MacDonald, Robert. Personal narrative of military travel and adventure in Turkey and Persia....
....comprising a brief sketch of the chequered life of the author. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition,
pages xvi, 303, crown 8vo, original blue cloth. A remarkably scarce narrative by a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade, First Bat-
talion, one of a specially selected party of nine sergeants which embarked for Persia in 1836. ALSOWITH THIS LOT: (1)
MERRILL ( Selah ). East of the Jordan : a record of travel and observation in the countries of Moab, Gilead, and Bashan.
With an introduction by Profesor Roswell D. Hitchcock. Richard Bentley & Son, 1881. FIRST UK EDN, with folding map
and 70 full-page and other illustrs, pp xv, 549, (2, ads), 8vo, original cloth, gilt : binding strong though with some wear,
internally bright & fresh. A record of work with the American Palestine Exploration Society 1874-77 by this leading
biblical archaeologist.(2) BARTLETT ( William H. ). Jerusalem Revisited. Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.,1855. FIRST EDITION,
with additional engraved vignette title-page, a folding panoramic view of Jerusalem, 20 engraved plates and some text
illustrations, pages viii, (3), 202, (18, adverts), royal 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, by Westleys, with their
ticket. (3) PULSZKY ( Ferencz Aurel ). The Tricolour on the Atlas ; or, Algeria and the French Conquest. From the German
of Dr Wagner and other sources, by Francis Pulszky, Esq. T. Nelson and Sons, Nelson’s Modern Library series,1854. FIRST
EDITION, with 4 double-page tinted litho plates of views, pages vi, (9) - 402, complete thus, 8vo, original orange cloth,
gilt, edges gilt : a very good to nice copy. Pulszky (1814--97), Hungarian politician and author, participated in Garibaldi’s
expedition to Aspromonte. (4)
Estimate €300-€400 £220-£290
Large Image & Place Bid 403