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[276] Kauffer, E. McKnight (Arranged & Edited by). The Art of the Poster - Its Origin, Evolution & Purpose. London: Cecil Palmer, 1924. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. xii, 190pp on glossy paper, with b/w & color plates throughout. In a library binding, with cloth tape backstrip. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $140.00 |
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[277] Brunet / Deschamps. Manuel Du Libraire Et De L'Amateur De Livres Dictionnaire Bibliographique & Supplements - 7 Volumes. Burxelles / Paris: Societe Belge De Librairie / Dorbon-Aine, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1838-1845, plus the 2 Volume Supplement dated 1878. Text in French. Valuable bibliography of early printed books. Volumes 1 (with backstrip wear/tear), 3 & 4 bound in 1/2 leather & marbled paper (library cloth tape over backstrip of Vol. 4). Volumes 2, 5 & Supplements in library bindings. Bindings tight. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $80.00 |
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[278] Burton, Richard F.. Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland - 2 Volumes. London & Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1875. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Complete with all maps (2 folding, in color, in VG condition), tinted lithographs, b/w plates & text illustrations. xix, map, 380pp; vi, list illustrations [1] 408pp, in original gilt illustrated blue cloth bindings. Covers show corner wear, backstrip wear/tear, 1 hinge cracked, an inner hinge cracked. EST: $100.00 - $250.00 Realized bid price - $900.00 |
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[279] . The Royal Magazine for the Year of 1769 - January Through December. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Poor Condition. SCARCE. Front cover loose, lacks back cover, first page lacking half. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper with a red leather spine label. Text in double column format. NO EX-LIB MARKS. Cover worn, leather chipped. Binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $100.00 |
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[280] Donovan, Rev. Jeremiah. Rome Ancient and Modern and Its Environs - 4 Volumes. Rome: Printed for the Author By Crispino Puccinelli, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1842-1844. With half-titles, 1 HAND COLORED FOLDING MAP, 44 engraved plates, 12 engraved plans, & 4 folding engraved plans. Bound in vellum with brown leather spine labels on gilt decorated backstrips. Covers peeling in spots, 1 leather spine label absent, gilt rubbed, occasional foxing, in protective mylar covers. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $180.00 |
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[281] Fleury, Paul. Die Holz Und Marmor Malerei - 2 Volumes. Berlin: Ch. Claesen & Cie., Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Volume 1) 12 double page, color plates of faux wood grains, mounted on hard stock, unbound as issued. Volume 2) 13 double page, color plates of faux marble, mounted on hard stock, unbound as issued. In original portfolios, with library cloth backstrips. Plates have edge chips/tears, with two split at the crease. No text. SCARCE. EST: 200.00 - $400.00 |
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[282] Prentice, Andrew N.. Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain - A Series of Examples Selected From the Purest Works Executed Between the Years 1500-1560. London: B.T. Batsford, Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Complete with 60 b/w plates showing front elevations, floor plans, architectural and ornamental details. vii, 16pp of descriptive text & list of subscribers, disbound in original gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges. Backstip detached & laid in. EST: $40.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[283] Audsley, W. & G.. Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles. Selected from Executed Ancient and Modern Works. A Book of Reference for the Architect, Sculptor, Decorative Artist and Practical Painter. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Half-title, Title, Preface [2] 14pp text [2] Complete with 60 b/w plates of ornamental designs, unbound, in original portfolio with ties. Pages have edge chips/tears, a few are trimmed. (May have been bound at one time?) EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[284] Downing, A.J.. The Architecture of Country Houses; Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas, with Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating - With 320 Illustrations. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1851. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Minimal library marking. x [2] 484pp, bound in tan paper over boards with leather spine label, binding & hinges tight. Occasional foxing, mostly at prelims. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $80.00 |
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[285] ENGRAVINGS. A Collection of 2 Volumes as Listed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***The Works of William Hogarth; In a Series of Engravings: With Desccriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by the Rev. John Trusler, to Which are Added Anecdotes of the Author and His Works by J. Hogarth and J. Nichols (circa 1880) London: E.T. Brain and Co. Two Volumes in One. NO LIBRARY MARKS. Engraved frontis with tg and additional engraved/illustrated title page for each volume. Engraved plates throughout, along with descriptive text. Bound in a library buckram binding, all edges gilt, binding & hinges tight. ***Library of Congress Catalog of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection of Engravings, compiled by Arthur Jeffrey Parsons (1905) Washington: Government Printing Office. xxi, 1 [1] 517pp, bound in half leather, deckled page edges, binding & hinges tight, plates have tissue guards intact. Front gutter starting. Contents include a Catalog of Engravers. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $90.00 |
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[286] . Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, with an Introduction By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. New York: The Century Co., 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Poor Condition. With 38 of (44) mounted color plates, most with tissue guards. First 12 leaves detached, 6 of the plates are mounted on a separate sheet of paper (in a protective mylar sleeve). EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $70.00 |
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[287] . Private Papers of James Boswell in the Isham Collection from Malahide Castle - (Presentation to Attract Subscribers). Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. "William Edwin Rudge, Having Been Entrusted by Lt-Colonel Ralph Isham with the Printing of the Private and Limited Edition of the Mss of James Boswell, From Malahide Castle, Has the Honour to Present the Following Particulars in Regard to it, for the Information of Collectors". Donated to the Library by Wm. E. Rudge. 13pp of publication information, a Subscrition Application, and 2 facsimilie sheets of the original manuscript. Hand stitched in the original stiff red covers with gilt lettering. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[288] POETRY & PROSE. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***The Works in Verse and Prose, of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun. Esq. with Notes to Which are Prefixed, Sketches if His Life, Character and Writings (1812) 1st Edition, Boston: J. Belcher. 8vo, leather bound, library cloth backstrip, frontis, hinges taped, binding tight, interior foxing. ***Die Schonheit by Erster Luxusband (circa 1920) Herausgeber: Karl Vanselow. 4to in original decorative cloth with bevelled edges, 508pp with publishers advertising, on glossy paper. Illustrated by BEAUTIES SCANTILY CLAD - IF AT ALL. Hinges cracked, endpapers detached, text in German. ***The Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by William Mason (1820) London: Printed by J.F. Dove for R. Priestley.... 8vo in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $120.00 Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[289] By a Suthron [Page, Frederic Benjamin]. Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas or New Estremadura. New York: Paine & Burgess, 1846. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Second Edition. WITH MAP. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, with leather spine label. Covers show corner/edge wear, surface rubbing/peeling. Front cover nearly detached, back cover starting, binding tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $160.00 |
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[290] [Jobert, Pere Louis]. La Science Des Medailles. Nouvelle Edition - 2 Volumes. Paris: De Bure, 1739. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Engraved frontis and 12 plates on NUMISMATICS. xliv, 2, [2] 464pp; 2, 446pp, [2] 31, bound in leather with raised bands on gilt decorated spines. Covers loose but attached, showing edge & corner wear. Bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 |
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[291] THE AMERICAS. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good to Very Good Condition. ***The Conquest of Mexico by W.H. Prescott, Illustrated by Keith Henderson - 2 Volumes (1922) London: Chatto & Windus. 4to in original gilt illustrated cloth covers, map endpapers, binding & hinges tight. ***Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America by Rev. Carlos Slafter (1903) 1st Edition, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, Boston: Prince Society. 8vo in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, binding & hinges tight. Frontis with title in red & black. ***The Problem of the Northmen. A Letter to Judge Daly, The President of the American Geographical Society by Eben Norton Horsford (1890) 2nd Edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Folio in original green cloth, with maps and plates. Covers bowed, hinges taped, back cover loose. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[292] HISTORICAL RECORDS. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. ***The Modern Historic Records Association of New York - Members Portfolio No. 1 - July 1, 1913, LIMITED #185. A folding Portfolio of 25 reproductions of rare documents, each one numbered 185 in red. Includes Edward S. Curtis with a photogravure of "The Oath - Apsaroke". ALSO, laid in, is a 24 page booklet on "The Modern Historic Records Association - The Story of Its Plan and Purpose" (actually short lived). ***The Declaration of Independence - The Evolution of the Text as Shown in Facsimiles of Various Drafts by Its Author (1943) Washington" Library of Congress. Issued in Conjunction with an Exhibit of these Drafts at the Library of Congress on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson. LIMITED to 2000 copies. Bound in stiff wraps, showing darkening. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[293] Hedin, Sven. Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet - 2 Volumes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. In library bindings. 2 frontis, illustrated throughout, folding panoramas, maps (in poor condition, lacking some). Binding and hinges tight (vol. 1 restitched). EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[294] . The Illustrated Fryeburg Webster Memorial. Fryeburg, ME: A.F. & C.W. Lewis, 1882. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER on the Title page. "To Miss Isabel Graves, with the Kind Regards of A.F. Lewis; Fryeburg, Aug. 6. '96. Contain's Daniel Webster's newly discovered Oration, some of his poems and Fryeburg Letters, also poems by Longfellow, Whittier and others. Illustrated. 39pp in a library binding with original paper cover mounted on. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[295] Combe, William. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, A Poem. ill. Rowlandson, T.. London: Reprinted By T.F. Bell, Philadelphia, 1864. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Complete with 31 hand colored, comical, lithograph plates ( colors bright). 313pp in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Edge chip to one page, not affecting the text. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 |
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[296] TRAVEL. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good to Very Good Condition. ***A Summer in Brittany by T. Adolphus Trollope, edited by Frances Trollope - 2 Volumes (1840) London: Henry Colburn. Complete with 12 etched plates, 2 of which are hand coloured. xi, 1, 433pp, 2 publisher ads; vii [1] 410pp, 2 publisher ads, in library bindings. Binding & hinges tight. ***A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 by Sir John Carr (1807) Philadelphia: Printed for C. and A. Conrad and Co (& others). xiv, 301pp, in a leather binding with library cloth backstrip. Interior foxing, covers have chips, edge/corner wear/tear, hinges taped, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $120.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[297] . A Masque of Poets. Including Guy Vernon, A Novelette in Verse - No Name Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. 301pp, 1, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Contains Emily Dickinson's poem "Success", her first appearance in any book, and the only book appearance of Dickinson's poetry while she was living. Published anonymously in the "No Name Series", none of the contributors are identified in the text. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[298] ARCTIC EXPLORATION. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. In library bindings. ***Voyages of Discovery and Research Within the Arctic Regions, From the Year 1818 to the Present Time: Under the Command of the Several Naval Officers Employed by Sea and Land in Search of a Northwest Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Two Attempts to Reach the North Pole by Sir John Barrow (1846) NY: Harper & Brothers. 12mo, WITH FOLDING MAP (has paper repair), and 1 map plate, 359pp, 8pp publisher ads. Occasional foxing, binding & hinges tight. ***Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long, revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb (1884) Hartford: American Publishing Company. Photographic frontis, with maps and illustrations throughout. 479pp, binding & hinges tight. EST: $40.00 - $80.00 Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[299] Morris, William / Magnusson, Eirikr [Done Into English Out of the Icelandic by]. The Saga Library - 6 Volumes. London: Bernard Quaritch, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1891-1905. Bound in 1/2 leather & gilt decorated cloth. Includes folding map (has crease tear) and folding Tables. Covers show backstrip wear/loss, hinges cracked, bindings tight. EST: $200.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $950.00 |
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[300] . Church of England Book of Common Prayer and Psalter, Bound with The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Translated Out of the Original Greek; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Savoy: Printed By The Assisgns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1669. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fair Condition. NO LIBRARY MARKINGS. Bound in polished calf with blind stamped border & designs, raised bands on spine. Back cover detached, lacks title page to The Book of Common Prayer. Date and Publisher taken from the title page for the New Testament. ENGRAVED PLATES THROUGHOUT. Page darkening, small edge chips/tears. Binding tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $160.00 |
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