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[076] Leland, Charles G.. Repousse Designs - 3 Parts in One. New York : William Whitlock, 1884. Ex-Library. 36 actual design plates for hammered metal work, on a glassine type paper, with general directions for each of the three parts. SCARCE. In homemade, protective, cardboard covers with pieces missing. Plates intact and in very good condition with slight corner curl. 17" in an oblong format. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $130.00 |
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[077] Stanfield, Clarkson / Cattermole, George / Leitch, W.L. / Creswick, Thomas / Roberts, David / Harding, J.D. / Nash, Joseph / MacCulloch, Horatio. Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views - 2 Volumes. ill. Drawn in Lithography By Harding, J.D. London: Joseph Hogarth / E. Gambart & Co., Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1847-1854. With Historical, Antiquarian amd Descriptive Letterpress by John Parker Lawson. 88 (of 91) lithographic plates (some tinted), on hardstock, with tissue guards, with an additional illustrated title page. Title, title, dedication, 2 contents, 2 list of plates, 198pp; Title, 199-307pp, bound in 3/4 red leather & cloth, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Covers worn with cloth peeling, occasional foxing, affecting some plates. Binding & hinges tight. Plates have signatures. EST: $4,000.00 - $7,000.00 Realized bid price - $2,100.00 |
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[078] Virgil. P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica Georgica Et Aeneis - 3 Volumes. Rome : Joannes Zempel, Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. 1763-1765. CLASSICAL LITERATURE. With head pieces, historiated initials, tail pieces, mounted plates and text illustrations throughout. 1) Half-title, double engraved frontis, title with portrait vignette and red/black lettering, xcii, 211pp, 1 errata & 30 engraved plates. 2) Half-title, frontis with tissue guard, title with portrait vignette and red/black lettering, lx, 336pp, 1 full page engraved map, 1 double page engraved map, 39 plates and 2 Codice. 3) half-title, frontis with tissue guard, title with portrait vignette and red/black lettering, xxiv, 343pp and 32 plates. Bound in full leather with gilt borders & gilt emblem, raised bands on spines. Covers detached, interior foxing, binding tight. EST: $600.00 - $1,000.00 Realized bid price - $600.00 |
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[079] TRAVELS. A Group of 6 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. All but the first, in library bindings. ***My Lost Mexico by James A. Michener (1992) 1st Edition, LIMITED #218/350, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Texas : State House Press. 4to, illustrated, binding & hinges tight, lacks dust jacket. ***Excursions in Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper (1836) Paris : Baudry's European Library. 8vo, text in English, binding & hinges tight, interior foxing. ***Sketches From the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. Freeman (1881) London : Macmillan and Co. 12mo, frontis wth tg, illustrated throughout, binding & hinges tight. ***The Land of Uz by Abdullah Mansur (G. Wyman Bury) (1911) London : Macmillan and Co. 8vo, frontis with illustrations throughout, folding map (has tears and slight loss), binding & hinges tight. ***Switzerland Picturesque and Descriptive by Joel Cook (1904) 1st Edition, Philadelphia : Henry T. Coates & Co. 12mo, frontis, plates throughout with captioned tissue guards, binding & hinges tight. ***The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude (1888) NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 8vo, complete with 8 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson, after drawings by the Author, binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $110.00 |
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[080] Priestley, Raymond E.. Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 382pp in original blue illustrated cloth, complete with 3 folding maps (in VG Condition, no tears) 1 Diagram, Frontis and 150 plates. Spine slightly sunned, frontis lacks tissue guard, covers show general wear, inscription on half-title. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $200.00 |
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[081] Rondinellus, Ioannes Baptista - Eiusdem Ordinis Apud Sanctam Sedem Apostolicam Orator. Illustrissimo Acreveren. D. Fratri-Vgoni De Lovbenx Verdala S.R.E. Cardinali Amplissimo. AcOrd. S. Ioan. Hierisol. Magno Magistro, Principi Ac Dominosuo Clementiss. 1586. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 3 Plates, 4 text, 1 plate, 1 text, 1 index, 1 plate, 203pp, 1 conclusion. With a total of 23 engraved plates and 1 map. The Library lists the title and date as above, but the book seems to lack a formal title page. It appears to be a bibliography in Latin, with subjects pertaining to Religion, Hospitals, Administration, Judicial Matters, and more. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with marbled endpapers, library tape backstrip, hinges cracked/taped. Slight insect damage in back affecting some text. EST: $400.00 - $1,000.00 Realized bid price - $3,500.00 |
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[082] Monkhouse, W. Cosmo [descriptive Text by]. The Turner Gallery a Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings From the Works of the Late J.M.W. Turner - 2 Volumes. New York : D. Appleton and Co., Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. (nd-circa 1880). Bound in 3/4 leather with gilt illustration, gilt raised bands on spines, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding & hinges tight. Complete with 121 tissue guarded engravings. Minimal library markings. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[083] Lacroix, Paul / Sere, Ferdinand. Le Moyen Age Et La Renaissance - 5 Volumes. Paris : Administration, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1848-1851. Chromolithographs, tissue-guarded plates and text illustrations throughout. Red leather bindings, with gilt borders and designs, raised bands on spines, gilt decorated inner borders, aeg, marbled endpapers. Some hinges taped, two volumes have library cloth backstrips. LIFE IN THE RENAISSANCE. BINDINGS TIGHT. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $180.00 |
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[084] Marchetti, Da Alessandro [tradotti Dal Latino in Italian]. Di Tito Lucrezio Caro Della Natura Delle Cose Libri Sei - 2 Volumes. Amsterdamo: Spese dell' Editore T.P., 1754. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ITALIAN VERSION OF LUCRETIUS "On the Nature of Things". 1) Frontis, title [1] 2 Illustrissimo, 2 Protesta, 1 plate, 243pp. 2) Frontis, title [1] 244-543pp. Total of 10 plates. Leather bound, raised bands on spines, brown leather spine label (1 lacking), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated title pages, head & tail pieces. Front covers detached, bindings tight, occasional foxing, occasional pencil notation. EST: $500.00 - $800.00 Passed |
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[085] Westwood, J.O.. Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria: Being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, Copied From Illuminated Manuscripts, Executed Between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. London : William Smith, First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1843-1845. Complete with 50 chromolithograph plates, highlighted with gold & silver, with additional hand coloring, with tissue guards and descriptive text. Bound in 3/4 leather, raised bands on spine, top edges gilt, binding tight. Front cover detached, lacks most of backstrip, occasional foxing. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $220.00 |
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[086] LITERATURE. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Salome a Tragedy In One Act by Oscar Wilde (1930) NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. 8vo, complete with 17 b/w plates by John Vassos. WITH DUST JACKET, protected in a mylar cover, showing chips & tears. Binding & hinges tight. ***Cruikshank At Home: A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment, With Numerous Illustrations Engraved on Wood by George Cruikshank FIRST & SECOND SERIES (1845) London : Henry G. Bohn. 12mo in buckram with red leather spine label, binding & hinges tight. Occasional foxing, occasional page tear, lacks one page. ***Shakespeare Scenes and Characters - A Series of Illustrations. Selected & arranged by Professor E. Dowden (1876) NY: Stroefer and Kirchner. 4to, complete with 36 engraved plates, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper. Plates hinge taped, covers worn lacking leather on corners, library tape backstrip. ***The Book of the Boudoir; or, Memento of Friendship. A Gift For All Seasons edited by Ellen Louise (nd) NY: Leavitt and Allen. 4to, in gilt decorated leather, aeg, library tape over backstrip. Engraved plates throughout, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $125.00 |
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[087] Brown, Alexander [Collected, Arranged & Edited by]. The Genesis of the United States . A Narrative of the Movement in England , 1605-1616, Which Resulted in the Plantation of North America By Englishmen - 2 Volumes. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. SCARCE. Title continues: Disclosing the Contest Between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil Now Occupied by the United States of America ; Set Forth Through A Series of Historical Manuscripts Now First Printed Together with a Reissue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, Accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes and Brief Biographies. With portraits, maps and plans througout. Uncollated. Frontis in each volume, bound in original blue cloth, showing corner wear and loss to upper/lower edge of backstrips. xxxviii, 524pp; 525-1157pp, deckled page edges, 2 hinges cracked, bindings tight. Sold as is. EST: $300.00 - $600.00 Passed |
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[088] Rollin, Charles. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians - Complete in 2 Volumes. Boston : Samuel Walker, 1853. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. New and Improved Edition. li, 14pp, 624pp; 630pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine. Double frontis in volume 1, single frontis in volume 2, with plates & maps throughout, some folding. Hinges starting, bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $190.00 |
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[089] Mora, Jose Joaquin De. Meditaciones Poeticas. ill. . Londres: Lo Publica R. Ackermann, 1826. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. POETICAL MEDITATIONS WITH 13 ENGRAVED PLATES DRAWN MY WILLIAM BLAKE. Unpaginated, text in Spanish. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper with red leather cover label. Covers worn & detached, interior foxing with light water stain into plates. Binding tight. Minimal library markings. EST: $400.00 - $800.00 Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[090] Jacob, Giles. A New Law Dictionary....... Savoy : Printed By E. And R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for J. And J. Knapton, J. Darby......, 1729. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. SCARCE. Unpaginated, text in double column format, leather bound. Lacks back cover & backstrip, front cover detached, light foxing, water mark along the bound edge. BINDING TIGHT. EST: $600.00 - $1,200.00 Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[091] Kretschmer, Albert / Rohrbach, Dr. Carl. The Costumes of All Nations From the Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century: Exhibiting the Dresses and Habits of All Classes, Regal, Ecclesiastical, Noble, Military, Judicial and Civil. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1882. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Title in red & black, 4pp and 102 (of 104) chromolithograph plates, in a library binding, with marbled endpapers. Binding & hinges tight. Colors bright. Some edge chips, lacks plate #15 and 78. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $220.00 |
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[092] Engraved By Pauquet Brothers. Illustrations of English and Foreign Costume From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. 77 (of 96) colored engraved plates with tissue guards intact. Title page is a facsimile, no text. In a library binding with binding & hinges tight. Colors bright. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $350.00 |
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[093] Allen, Fred H.. The Great Cathedrals of the World - 2 Volumes. Boston : Haskell & Post Company, 1886. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Complete with 130 photogravure plates (some tinted) with explanatory and descriptive text, tissue guards intact. 1) vii, 1 contents, 152pp. 2) 1 contents, 153-308pp. Both with half-titles, frontis & titles in red & black. Bound in 3/4 leather with raised bands on spines. Covers show edge wear, wear to upper/lower edges of backstrip, front cover loose (but attached) on vol. I. BINDINGS TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[094] . Monographs of American Architecture - Complete in 6 Monographs. Boston : Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Unbound plates (as issued) in portfolios, most with ties. Monographs 1-5 published by Ticknor and Co. Monograph 6 published by American Architect and Building News Co. Slight age darkening around some outer plate edges, portfolio covers show grime & edge wear. 1) Austin Hall, Harvard Law School , Cambridge , Mass. (nd) H.H. Richardson, Architect. Complete with 17 full page b/w photographic plates and 1 plan. Library marks show as light ink stamp on back of plates. 2) The State Capital, Hartford , Conn. (1886) Richard M. Upjohn, Architect. Complete with 21 full page b/w photographic plates and 1 plan. Library marks show as light ink stamp on back of plates. 3) The Ames Memorial Building , North Easton , Mass. (nd) H.H. Richardson, Architect. Complete with 21 full page b/w photographic plates and 2 plans. NO library marks on plates, nor portfolio. 4) The Memorial Hall, Harvard University , Cambridge , Mass. (1887) Ware & Van Brunt, Architects. Complete with 13 full page b/w photographic plates and 1 plan. Library marks show as light ink stamp on back of plates. 5) Trinity Church , Boston , Mass. (1888) C.D. Gambrill and H.H. Richardson, Architects. Complete with 21 full page b/w photographic plates, 1 color plate and 1 plan. Includes portrait of Henry Hobson Richardson. NO library makings on plates, nor portfolio. 6) The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (1898) Architects: Smithmeyer & Pelz; Paul J. Pelz; Edward P. Casey. Complete with 20 full page b/w photographic plates. Library marks show as embossed corner/edge & light ink stamp on back of plates. EST: $2400.00 - $3,600.00 Realized bid price - $2,000.00 |
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[095] ARCHITECTURE. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Architectural Sketches From the Continent by Richard Norman Shaw, Architect (1872) London : Published for the Proprieters. Complete with 100 photo-lithographed plates, unbound as issued, in a folding portfolio with ties. Illustrated Title (has tears), 1 Dedication, 1 Preface & 7 Index. Library marks show as ink stamp on back of plates. ***Little Churches of France . Their Origin; Their Characteristics; Their Periods by Albert A. Chadwick (1930) 1st Edition, NY: Harper & Brothers. Complete with 25pp text and 125 full page photogravure plates, plates unbound as issued, in a portfolio with ties, paper label on front cover. Library marks show as light ink stamp on back of plates. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[096] JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. . Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Japanese Flower Arrangements. A Collection of 10 chromolithograph plates tipped-in, with descriptive text in English, tipped-in. Hard cover, accordian style pages, with jacquard silk covers, Japanese paper label, and gold flecked endpapers. Plates clean & bright. Scrapbook style. Library marking in pencil. ***Japanese Flower Arrangements. Black and white illustrations on thin accordian style pages, with Japanese text. Soft cover in textured designed paper, Japanese paper label with single thread hand stitching. Occasional foxing. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[097] JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. A 3 Volume set bound in matching green paper over stiff wraps, with single thread stitched binding, thin accordian style pages. The main theme is outdoor gardens, lanterns, architecture and tools used. Includes garden raking patterns. Black & white illustrations with Japanese text. Occasional foxing. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 |
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[098] JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Hand tinted illustrations of personages. A two volume set, one in yellow paper, the other in orange paper, with single thread hand stitching, Japanese paper label, accordian style pages. Covers have grime. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[099] JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED. A Kimono Pattern Book . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. A Kimono pattern book, put together as a scrapbook, by a designer. Some woodblock prints, some hand painting, in color and b/w. Single leaf, double sided pages, with b/w designed kimono on cover, bound by single thread, hand stitched. MUST BE SEEN. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $180.00 |
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[100] JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED. Hand Painted Book. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Hand painted color designs including botanical scenes, cranes, water views and more. Accordian style pages on thin paper, bound in stiff wraps with Japanese lettering, restitched with a single thread. Single insect damage on back cover and last 7 leaves, affecting the illustrations. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $300.00 |
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