‎Dillard, Annie‎
‎For the Time Being‎

‎A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING‎

‎Canongate. 2013. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 422 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Novel. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎For the time being or Where is Francis?‎

‎ 1945 London, Faber & Faber, 1945. 14,5 x 22,5 cm ,124 pp, good condition, no dust jacket ‎

‎First UK edition. ‎

‎A Compendium of the East. Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies Made By the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland. Now Published for the First Time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction by Ashley Gibson.‎

‎London The Golden Cockerel Press 1937 ‎

‎First Thus. Limited: # 86 of 300 copies. Black cloth spine, batik covered boards. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schouten's Oost-Indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as end papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. Bookplate of Herbert Eberhard Hering, a noted German-Brazilian bibliophile and book collector, appears on the inside front paste down. The black spine has a little nicking to the top and tail of the spine. Overall in good, clean condition though. Internally clean with a few foxing spots only. Text in English. 320 x 200 mm (12œ x 7Ÿ inches).‎

‎FENERCI MEHMED. Ottoman costume book: Fenerci Mehmed. Osmanli kiyafetleri: Fenerci Mehmed albümü. Edited by Ilhami Turan. Istanbul: Vehbi Koc Vakfi, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 31 p., 96 numerous color plates. Ottoman costume book. Fenerci Mehmed.Osmanli kiyafetleri. Fenerci Mehmed albümü. Edited by Ilhami Turan. A facsimile edition of Osmanli Kiyafetleri by Fenerci Mehmed, the original of which is in the private collection of Rahmi M. Koc. From the 15th Century on, Europeans attempted to become acquainted with the Turks, who were the representatives of a growing and ever more powerful unknown world. The structure, daily life, religion, and clothing of Ottoman society, which were so totally different from their own, were the objects of an inexhaustible curiosity. Over the centuries, it was this curiosity which made it the goal of Europeans who came to Turkey to depict in words or in pictures the impressions which they acquired during the course of their visits. It was also in this way that the costume books which they had prepared by local artists to provide more accurate information were born. This work, which is more of these albums representing various types from among government officials and various sectors of the populace in the Ottoman Empire as well as their clothing whose date an place of production as well as whose artist are known, is being offered to the world of art and science for the first time in the form of this publication Good condition‎

‎The Memoirs. (1785-1858). Being extracts from her diaries now presented to english readers for the first time‎

‎New-York, Washburn, s. d. in-12, 231 pp., front., pl., bradel percaline bleue (rel. de l'éditeur). ‎

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