Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Carthago [WITH] Bône à travers les Siècles [WITH] L'Amphithéatre de Carthage [WITH] 4 Issues of Carthage

First editions Ex Library. Softcover. Seven publications bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather label of spine, protected by modern mylar. Decorative endpapers with label of binder . Some wear along edges, small chips, mostly at head and tail of spine and edges of black label. Expertly repaired at front gutter. Two in closed tear at top of front endpaper and front free endpaper. Text of all issues in French.

1. Edmond Poulain. Carthago. Société Anonyme de L'Imprimerie Rapide. 1911. First edition. Octavo. 142pp., 16 plates, 2 folding maps. Original blue wraps printed in black and red with b/w photograph on cover. Work subsidized by the City Council of Tunis, with map of Tunisia and a map of Carthage in 1911 and numerous views. With reports on Carthage and the source of its wealth an power, the recruitment of its army, science and art, the government mentality, religion, human sacrifices, poems on Carthage and Hannibal, and various notes for tourists. Accompanied by two folding maps of Carthage in 1911 and Tunisia. Beautifully illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs depicting venerable personalities and beautiful sites in Carthage and Tunisia. Errata page at rear and note tipped in at errata page. Contains two pages with train schedules and advertisements at rear. Wraps with light wear along edges, small closed tears, small chips and rubbed. Library stamps on cover and title page. Block age-toned. Overall in good to good+ condition.

2. A Maitrot; Bone à travers les Siècles (Bone Through the Centuries). Bone. Imprimerie Centrale, A.-M. Mariani. 1912. First edition. Quarto. 32pp. Original light yellow wraps printed in red and blue with publisher's device on cover. Title page with publisher's device. Sold for the benefit of L. P. B. History of the City of Bone, today known as Annaba, a seaport city at the Eastern cost of Algeria. Known for findings of bones and tool making techniques, the Phoenicians settled here in the 14th century BC. It became a center for early Western Christianity and was ruled by many different powers until the French occupation in 1832. Wraps with with some wear along edges, small chips and half an inch strips of sunning at bottom and foredge. Library stamps on cover and title page. Age-toned.

3. A.-L. Delattre. L'Amphithéatre de Carthage et le Pèleringe de Sainte Perpétue. Lyon. Imprimerie J. Poncet. 1913. First edition. Quarto. 24pp. Original rose illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece. Account of the festival celebrating the martyrs Perpétue, a young patrician, and the young slave Félicité. Illustrated with drawings of artifacts and two full page b/w photographs of the festival. Front wrap with light wear and sunning along edges. Library stamps on front and back cover.

4. R. P. Delattre. Carthage. La Nécropole Punique Nex to the Hill of Saint Monique. Paris. Imprimerie E. Petithenry. 1898. First editions. Quarto. 21; 23; 28; 27(1)pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on covers, volume four with vignette on cover and title page. Covers and title pages with publisher's devices. Four 1898 issues with reports on the excavations of the Punic cemetery next to the hill of Saint Monique. Volume one covers the excavation of January, vol. two February, vol. three April through June, and vol. four the excavations from July through December of 1898. All four issues illustrated profusely with reproductions of b/w photographs of showing the site and artifacts, plans, and drawings of artifacts. Wraps of first issue with wear along bottom and foredge with half an inch strip sunned at bottom and foredge. The other three issues with some sunning along edges. Library stamp on cover and title page of first issue. Cover of first issue fair, others in good+, interiors of first issue in good, the others in very good condition. fair to vg. Item #47713

Price: $650.00