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[251] Coxe, William. Travels in Switzerland, and in the Country of the Grisons: In a Series of Letters to William Melmoth - 3 Volumes. London: T. Cadell, 1791. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Second Edition. Complete with 2 FOLDING MAPS, and 5 engraved plates (2 folding). Volume 1 in marbled paper with leather tips, and library cloth backstrip. Volumes 2 & 3 are in polished tree calf, with large portions of leather peeled off covers, library cloth over backstrips, hinges taped. Bindings tight. Largest folding map has tears at creases, smaller map has small edge tear. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[252] Murray, Hon. James Erskine. A Summer in the Pyrenees - 2 Volumes. London: John Macrone, 1837. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Second Edition. SCARCE. Complete with 12 copper engraved plates. In mis-matched bindings. Vol. 1 in 3/4 leather & marbled paper with covers detached, Vol. 2 in blind stamped cloth with front cover starting, front hinge taped. xii, 341pp; viii, 312pp. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[253] Stephen, Leslie. The Playground of Europe. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1871. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. x, 2, 321pp, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Complete with frontis (small tape repair) and 3 illustrations. The author was the father of Virginia Woolf, and President of the Alpine Club. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[254] Forbes, James D.. Travels Through the Alps. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1900. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. New Edition Revised by W.A.B. Coolidge. Complete with 6 FOLDING MAPS (largest has paper repairs, others in VG condition). Frontis has tissue guard with text illustrations throughout. xxxviii [2] 572pp, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $100.00 |
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[255] Catlow, Agnes and Maria E.. Sketching Rambles; or, Nature in the Alps and Apennines. London: James Hogg and Sons, 1861. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Complete with 2 hand colored lithograph frontis, and 18 tinted lithograph plates. xii, 2, 374pp; viii [2] 368pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, binding & hinges tight. Covers show edge/corner wear & surface rubbing. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $120.00 |
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[256] Lodge, Edmund [Biographical and Historical Memoirs by]. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain - 4 Volumes. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Lepard, First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. 1821-1834. Complete with 240 engraved, tissue guarded plates, with descriptive text. Includes the List of Subscribers. Bound in gilt decorated leather, raised bands on spine, brown leather spine labels, aeg, inner gilt borders with blind stamping. BINDINGS TIGHT. A few covers detached, upper/lower backstrip wear/tear, corner/edge wear, interior foxing, edge water stain in one volume (not affecting the portraits). EST: $100.00 - $250.00 Realized bid price - $240.00 |
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[257] [Silliman, Benjamin]. A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages Over the Atlantic, in the Years 1805 and 1806 - 3 Volumes. New-Haven: S. Converse, 1820. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Third Edition. 311pp; 309pp; 312pp bound in polished tree calf, with brown leather spine labels, with 2 PLATES ON STONEHENGE. Front covers loose, general cover wear, upper/lower edges of backstrip show chips, interior foxing, bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[258] Savage, John [edited by]. Picturesque Ireland: A Literary and Artistic Delineation - 2 Volumes. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1878. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. SCARCE EDITION. Frontis & additional decorative title page in each volume, with steel engravings, maps and illustrations throughout. 649pp on glossy paper, in library bindings, with bindings & hinges tight. Uncollated. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $350.00 |
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[259] Williams, Rev. Charles. The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy. New York: Alexander Montgomery, 1854. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. vi, 634pp bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper. Covers detached, showing bumping/wear/tear, some backstrip loss, lacks map frontis, occasional paper wear/tear/repair. Binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[260] Muybridge, Eadweard. The Human Figure in Motion - An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Muscular Actions. London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Third Impression. Oblong format, 277pp on glossy paper, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Photographic phases of mostly unclothed bodies in action. Includes a List of Subscribers. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[261] Calderini, Emma. Il Costume Popolare In Italia. Milano: Sperling & Kupfer, 1950. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. THIS IS NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. LIMITED EDITION #441/2000. 152pp of text in Italian, with 14 b/w plates and 200 chromolithograph plates of ITALIAN COSUTME. Colors bright. In original illustrated cloth binding, spine sunned, hinges cracked, binding tight, occasional interior foxing. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $160.00 |
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[262] Brown, Paul. Black & White By Brown - Simplified Drawing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Condition, with a Dust Jacket in Fair Condition, protected in a mylar cover. THIS IS NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. Oblong format, unpaginated, in original illustrated paper over boards, complete with 2 leaves of basic drawing figures on stiffer stock, in the back, meant to be removed and used. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. Light age darkening to edges of covers & pages. Dust jacket shows chips/tears. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[263] CIVIL WAR. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, From Birth to Death. From Original Notes, Collated in the Years 1861 to 1865, by T.C. DeLeon (1890) Mobile, Alabama: The Gossip Printing Co. 376pp in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Occasional page tear. ***The Grayjackets: and How They Lived, Fought and Died, for Dixie. With Incidents & Sketches of Life in the Confederacy by a Confederate (James D. McCabe Jr.) (1867) Richmond, VA: Jones Brothers & Co. 574pp in buckram with library cloth tape backstrip. Covers show loss at lower edge, lacks frontis. ILLUSTRATED, WITH MAPS. EST: $80.00 - $160.00 |
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[264] CIVIL WAR. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Personal and Military History of Philip Kearney, Major-General United States Volunteers by John Watts De Peyster (1869) 1st Edition, NY: Rice and Gage. 8vo in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges all around. Lacks backstrip, corner wear, one signature sprung. ILLUSTRATED. ***Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds (1865) Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co. 8vo in a library binding, engraved frontis has tg, ILLUSTRATED, binding & hinges tight. ***The Public Life of Capt. John Brown by James Redpath, With an Auto-Biography of His Childhood and Youth (1860) 1st Edition, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge. 12mo in a library binding with library cloth backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. Engraved frontis & 1 other plate. One page detached. ***Three Years in the Sixth Corps by George T. Stevens (1866) 1st Edition, Albany: S.R. Gray. 8vo in a library binding, corner wear, front hinge taped, back hinge cracked, binding tight. Engraved frontis with plates throughout. EST: $80.00 - $160.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[265] Whittaker, Frederick. A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1876. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. SCARCE. x, 648pp in a buckram binding with a library cloth backstrip, hinges cracked, binding tight. 14 (of 17) plates, some of which are Native American portraits. Pages brittle with chips, tear/repair. The first biography of Custer, published 3 months after his death. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $80.00 |
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[266] Bircher, William. A Drummer-Boy's Diary: Comprising Four Years of Service with the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865. St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Book and Stationary Company, 1889. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. 199pp in a library binding with library cloth tape backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. Frontis (has tears/chips) with plates throughout. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[267] CIVIL WAR. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. All in library bindings with library tape backstrips. ***"Where Men Only Dare to Go!" or, The Story of a Boy Company by an Ex-Boy (Royall W. Figg) (1885) Richmond, VA. Lacks title page (and possibly a few preliminary leaves) & plates, first few leaves have tape repair. Not complete. ***Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States by Joseph E. Johnston (1874) 1st Edition, NY: D. Appleton and Co. Complete with all maps & engraved plates with tg's. One map missing a piece. Binding & hinges tight. Pages brittle with some chips. ***Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee, Soldier and Man by Rev. J. William Jones (1906) NY: Neale Publishing Co. Engraved frontis with additional plates, binding & hinges tight. Pages brittle, a few detached, page tears. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[268] Hayley, William. The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. With Remarks on Epistolary Writers - 4 Volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1812. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. New Edition. In library bindings. Frontis in Volume 1, xxxvi, 383pp; Title, contents, 410pp; Title, contents, 443pp; Title, contents, 430pp. Hinges cracked in one volume, otherwise bindings & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[269] Hosack, David. Memoir of De Witt Clinton: With an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents, Illustrative of the Principal Events of His Life. New York: J. Seymour, 1829. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. xxiv, 530pp, bound in marbled paper with leather tips, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, and library cloth backstrip. Engraved frontis with tissue guard, additional interior plate and HAND COLORED FOLDING MAP OF THE ERIE CANAL AND HUDSON RIVER (small edge tear). Hinges taped, binding tight, interior foxing. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $110.00 |
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[270] Roche, Denis. L'Art Russe. Les Emaux Champleves De La Princesse Marie Tenichev. Paris: J. Povolozky & Cie., 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Circa 1910. SCARCE. 2 copies of the descriptive booklet (4 leaves on glossy paper), with text in French. Complete with 20 color plates, on hard stock, many highlighted with gold, unbound as issued, in a folding portfolio. RUSSIAN DECORATIVE ARTS, belonging to the Princess Marie Tenichev. Portfolio in poor condition. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 |
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[271] Whitaker, J. Vernon. The Art Treasures of England. The Master-Pieces of the Best English, Irish and Scottish Painters and Sculptors Represented By Over One Hundred Fine Steel Engravings. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1876. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. xlviii and complete with 100 engraved plates with tissue guards intact, along with descriptive text, bound in leather with blind stamped borders, gilt illustration, raised bands on spine, all edges gilt & marbled endpapers. Covers detached, showing rubbed leather, worn corners, upper/lower edges of backstrip peeling. Binding tight. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $80.00 |
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[272] Sidney, Algernon. Discourses On Government - 3 Volumes. New York: Printed for Richard Lee By Deare and Andrews, 1805. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Published From an Original Manuscript of the Author, to Which is Added, an Account of the Author's Life, and a Copious Index. This work, originally published in 1698 became the TEXTBOOK OF REVOLUTION in America. Frontis in Volume 1, 454pp; 478pp; 458pp, 2 publishers ads. Leather bound, with library cloth over backstrips, covers taped or detached, one binding split, wandering water stains. EST: $100.00 - $250.00 Realized bid price - $110.00 |
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[273] JAPANESE. A Grouping of 9 Items as Listed. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. ***The Life of Taiko Hideyoshi Who Had Invaded Corea & China. 8vo soft cover, with colored front cover (colors bright), machine stitched edge, accordian style pages with stiffener sheets. A total of 6 leaves (includes covers), with double sided b/w illustrations of Samurai Scenes. Page edges separating, one has closed tear. **The rest of the items listed below are rolled, single illustrated sheets as follows ***Horse Diety, colored, 3 copies, 10" wide x 26-1/2" long. The lower portion of image is chewed. ***Temple of 33,000 Images of Kwannon - Sanjusangendo, in b/w, 10-3/4" long x 15-1/2" wide. Edge tears/chips. ***Sitting Deity - 2 copies, 3-1/2" wide x 7-1/4" long. *** Colored image of 7 figues, one of which is chasing a bull, 12-1/4" wide x 9-1/2" tall. Edge chips/tears. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[274] Music. A Group of 9 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Beethoven - A Critical Biography by Vincent D'Indy (1913) 1st U.S. Edition, NO LIB MARKS, ILLUSTRATED, FOLDOUTS, binding & hinges tight. ***Army Song Book (1918) Washington, with musical notation, title page hinge taped, library covers with original mounted on. ***J.S. Bach by Albert Schweitzer (1963) Weisbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, German text, NO LIB MARKS, original cloth covers, with binding & hinges tight. ILLUSTRATED. ***Mozart's Leben by Ludwig Nohl (1870) Leipzig: Fues. Engraved frontis with tg, folding sheet music in back, text in German. Library cloth backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight, occasional foxing. ***Marlboro Music School and Festival - First Twenty Five Years, Rudolf Serkin Artistic Director. Original cloth covers, binding & hinges tight. ***The Music of Nature; or, An Attempt to Prove That What is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking and Performing Upon Musical Instruments, is Derived From the Sounds of the Animated World. With Curious and Interesting Illustrations by William Gardiner (1852) Boston: Wilkins, Rice & Kendall. Color frontis has tg, musical notation throughout, book covered in library cloth over boards. ***Anton Seidel - A Memorial by His Friends (Feb/March 1899) LIMITED #734/1000, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Frontis has tg, with tg'd plates throughout. Original cloth binding, teg, binding & hinges tight. ***Bells: Their History and Romance, edited by Gouverneur Morrison (1932) 1st Edition, Santa Barbara: J.F. Rowny Press. Frontis with illustrations, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. ***The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell (1927) 1st Edition. Photographic frontis, with b/w photographic plates throughout. Original cloth covers, back hinge cracked, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[275] Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster, in Collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Unpaginated. Full page photogravure reproductions, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. ALSO - The Decisive Moment Captions, phamplet, tipped-in, in back ( has ink marking on 1st page). EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $210.00 |
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