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[126] . The Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, Together with the Books of the Apocrypha; and the Various Readings Both of Text and Margin. London: Printed for R. Bonwicke, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe......, 1720. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard & Soft Covers. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Fifth Edition. Unpaginated, double column format, blind stamped leather binding, raised bands on spine, binding tight. Worn covers detached, lacks free end papers, wear/tear to title page. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $70.00
[127] . Armenian Miniature Prayerbook on Vellum. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. Circa 15th - 16th Century. Calligraphic prayer book, on 281vellum leaves, double sided, single column, of 15 lines in black and red ink, with head pieces in black/red/green/blue inks, flourished initials in red. Bound in blind stamped leather over wood, with raised bands on 2-1/2 inch thick spine. Lacks title page, damp mark on some back pages. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. No library markings. EST: $1,000.00 - $3,000.00
Realized bid price - $1,250.00
[128] Butler , Joseph. Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, to Which Are Added Six Sermons Preached on Public Occasions. London : Printed for F. And C. Rivington, and S. Hayes, 1792. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Sixth Edition. Includes - Upon Human Nature, Upon the Government of the Tongue, Upon Compassion, etc. Leather bound, with covers loose/detached. BINDING TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[129] Fleming, Rev. Robert. The Fulfilling of the Scripture. Or, An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works Performed and To Be Performed. Charlestown : Samuel Etheridge, 1806. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Containing Some Rare Histories of the Works and the Servants of God in the Church of Scotland. 394pp, 2 publisher's advertising, bound in leather. Front cover detached, lacks half of backstrip. BINDING TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[130] EARLY SCHOOL BOOKS. A Group of 6 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Fair to Good Condition. THESE ARE NOT EX-LIBRARY BOOKS. SOME LOCAL IMPRINTS. ***The Monitorial Reader, Designed for the Use of Academies and Schools; and as a Monitor to Youth, Holding Up to Their View Models Whereby to Form Their Own Characters by Daniel Adams (1839) 1st Edition, KEENE , NH : J. & J.W. Prentiss. 12mo, leather bound with brown leather spine label, 288pp, hinge starting, foxing, rubbed with peeling to upper backstrip, inscription. ***A New System of Modern Geography, or a General Description of the Most Remarkable Countries Throughout the Known World......by Benjamin Davies (1813) 3rd Edition, Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner...... 12mo, leather bound, red leather spine label, complete with 6 FOLDING MAPS (1 torn and missing pieces), binding & hinges tight, front gutter crack, leather chip on back, foxing. ***English Grammar, with an Improved Syntax by J.M. Putnam (1828) 2nd Edition, Concord : Jacob B. Moore. 16mo, half leather & marbled paper with brown leather spine label, binding & hinges tight, foxing. ***Sunday School Spelling and Reading Book by Stephen R. Kirby (1838) NY: T. Mason & G. Lane . 24mo, in half leather & illustrated paper with title vignette. Covers worn with some paper lacking, interior foxing with corner curl, pencil markings, binding tight. ***A Spelling-Book, Containing the Rudiments of the English Language: with Appropriate Reading Lessons by Thomas J. Lee (1834) Boston : Munroe and Francis. 16mo, in half leather and paper with a title vignette, ILLUSTRATED, hinges cracked, binding tight, water stain. ***Key to the Franklin Written Arithmetic by Edwin P. Seaver & George A. Walton (1878) NY: Sheldon & Co. 12mo in original cloth, binding & hinges tight, water stain. EST: $80.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $50.00
[131] Watts, Isaac. Two Books in One as Listed Below. Newburyport: Printed and Sold By John Mycall, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fair to Good Condition. ND-circa 1780. THIS IS NOT AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. ***The Psalms of David, Imitated, in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. 288pp with insect damage to lower corner of first few leaves, not affecting the text. ***Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books. 246pp, 9 Table, 9 Table. In leather over wood binding, with raised bands on spine. Leather chips, lacks free endpapers, light foxing. binding tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $160.00
[132] PSALMS & HYMNS. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. THESE ARE NOT EX-LIBRARY BOOKS. ***1) The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. 2) Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books by I. Watts, TWO BOOKS IN ONE, (1806) Boston: Manning & Loring. 251pp, [1]; x, 216pp. Leather over wood binding, lacks spine label & free endpapers, binding tight, occasional light foxing. ***National Hymns, Original and Selected; For the Use of Those Who Are "Slaves To No Sect" by Abner Kneeland (1836) Boston: Published and Sold at the Office of the Boston Investigator. Bound in original cloth, iv, 140pp, binding & hinges tight, foxing, closed tear on one page. ***Select Hymns: The Third Part of Christian Psalmody; with Directions for Musical Expression by Samuel Worcester (1823) Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong. Half red leather & paper binding, 156pp, binding & hinges tight, interior foxing. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $50.00
[133] THEOLOGY. A Group of 9 Volumes as Listed. Good Condition. All hard covers except the first book. THESE ARE NOT EX-LIBRARY BOOKS. ***A Reply to Rev. Mr. Robinson's Review of Remarks Upon His Sermon, "Illustrating the Human and Official Inferiority, and Supreme Divinity of Christ." by T.R. Sullivan (1827) KEENE, NH: John Prentiss. 12mo, 78pp in soft wraps, showing corner curl and small stains. ***Thoughts on the Benevolent Enterprises, Embracing the Subjects of Missions, Sabbath Schools, Temperance, ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, and Peace by John J. Butler (1840) Dover: Trustees of the Freewill Baptist Connection. 24mo bound in half leather & marbled paper, binding & hinges tight. Owners name, interior foxing. ***A Threefold Cord; or, A Precept, Promise, and Prayer, from the Holy Scriptures, for Every Day in the Year (circa 1850-1860) NY: American Tract Society. MINIATURE 48mo, in original blind stamped cloth, binding & hinges tight, occasional foxing. ***A Call to the Unconverted by Rev. Richard Baxter (circa 1825) NY: American Tract Society. 24mo, leather bound with red leather spine label, binding & hinges tight, interior foxing. ***The Saints' Everlasting Rest by the Rev. Richard Baxter (circa 1850) NY: American Tract Society. 16mo, leather bound, with black leather spine label, binding & hinges tight, interior foxing. ***Union Questions; or, Questions on Select Portions of Scripture, from the Old and New Testaments - Vol. 1, (1834) Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. 24mo, in half leather & paper, WITH MAP (no tear, nor stains). Covers stained with edge water stain on pages, binding & hinges tight. ***Union Questions....Vol. III, (1830) Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. 24mo in half leather & paper, WITH MAP (no tears, nor stains). Insect damage to front gutter, covers stained, paper peel, interior foxing, front hinge cracked, binding tight. ***Union Questions...Vol. V (2 copies) (1835) Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. 24mo in half leather & paper, lacks maps, poor condition. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $60.00
[134] Eliot, George. George Eliot's Works - 5 Volumes. New York: United States Book Company, Successors to John W. Lovell Company, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. Circa 1890. THESE ARE NOT EX-LIBRARY BOOKS. Bound in 3/4 pebbled leather and marbled paper, raised bands on gilt decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, frontis with tissue guard in each volume, interior plates throughout. Titles include: Daniel Deronda; The Spanish Gypsy; The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems Old & New; The Mill on the Floss; Felix Hold the Radical and Romola. Covers detached, spines sunned, occasinal foxing, bindings tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Passed
[135] Savage, James {of the London Institution}. The Librarian - 3 Volumes. London: Printed By And for William Savage, . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. iv, 286pp, 2 index; iv, 286pp, 2 index; iv, 286pp, 48pp. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on gilt decorated spines, black & red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bindings tight. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Front covers detached, occasional foxing, some chips to backstrip. EST: $40.00 - $100.00
Passed
[136] Dall, Caroline H.. Woman's Right To Labor; or, Low Wages and Hard Work: In Three Lectures, Delivered in Boston, November 1859. Boston: Walker, Wise and Company, 1860. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. xv [1] 184pp, 1, bound in original blind stamped cloth. Library cloth backstrip, front hinge cracked, first signature loose. EST: $40.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $90.00
[137] Durdent, J.R.. Beautes De L'Histoire De Turquie. Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1818. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. TURKISH HISTORY. Title continues: Comprenant les faits les plus remarquables de l'histoire musulmane, depuis Mahomet, les califes, ses successerus, et les souverains de l'empire ottoman jusqu'a nos jours. Deuxieme Edition. Complete with 6 engraved plates. Bound in marbled paper, showing bumped corners, edge wear, occasional foxing. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. Text in French. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $60.00
[138] Fauset, Jessie. Comedy American Style. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. SCARCE book by this Afro-American Author, who was also the first black woman graduate of Cornell. Title, dedication, contents, 327pp in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Paste-on from dust jacket, facing page 1. FICTION. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[139] Robinson, Edward. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, By E. Robinson and E. Smith. Undertaken in Reference to Biblical Geography - 3 Volumes. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1841. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. xxviii, 571pp; xiv, 679pp; xi, 475pp, 246pp. Bound in original blind stamped cloth, covers detached on volume 1, lacks maps. BINDINGS TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Passed
[140] Napier, Lieut.-Colonel E.. Reminiscences of Syria, and Fragments of a Journal and Letters From the Holy Land - 2 Volumes. London: T.C. Newby, 1843. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. SCARCE. 2 publisher ads, ix [1] 348pp; 415pp, bound in original blue blind stamped cloth. Tinted lithograph FRONTIS in each volume (one with tissue guard), FOLDING MAP with coloured route (small edge tear), and 1 Plan. One back cover detached, backstrip chips, wear and darkening, corners bumped. BINDINGS TIGHT. In protective mylar jackets. EST: $1,000.00 - $2,000.00
Realized bid price - $1,500.00
[141] Musters, George Chaworth. At Home With the Patagonians - A Year's Wanderings Over Untrodden Ground From the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro. London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard & Soft Covers. Ex-Library. Poor Condition (needs rebinding). SCARCE. xx, 323pp, 32pp of publisher ads. Includes the FOLDING MAP with colored route (no tears), 1 full page map and 8 engraved plates (1 has tape), lacks frontis. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, lacks front cover & backstrip, disbound (in a protective pocket). EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $120.00
[142] Alexander, Sir James E.. L'Acadie; or, Seven Years' Explorations in British America - 2 Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1849. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good++ Condition. xvi, 345pp; viii, 326pp, in library buckram. Complete with 10 illustrations as called for, which includes 2 frontis, title vignettes, full page maps and more. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. EST: $100.00 - $250.00
Realized bid price - $170.00
[143] Rawling, Captain C.G.. The Great Plateau Being An Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. xii, 319pp, bound in half leather & marbled paper. INCLUDES BOTH FOLDING MAPS. ILLUSTRATED with PHOTOGRAPIC PLATES THROUGHOUT. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, upper backstrip peeling, front hinge starting, binding slightly loose. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $170.00
[144] TRAVEL. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Travels in the East Indian Archipelago by Albert S. Bickmore (1869) NY: D. Appleton and Company. 8vo in original gilt illustrated cloth, with blind stamping. Complete with 32 plates and 2 folding MAPS. Covers detached, corner/edge wear/tear, wear to upper/lower backstrip, binding slightly loose. ***Folks Next Door - The Log Book of a Rambler by W.A. Croffut (circa 1905) 3rd Edition, Washington D.C.: Eastside Publishing Co. 8vo in original cloth, illustrated, binding & hinges tight. ***The Foreigner in Far Cathay by W.H. Medhurst (1873) NY: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 12mo in original gilt illustrated cloth, with color folding MAP, binding & hinges tight. ***The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe with a Historical Review of Previous Journeys Along the North Coast of the Old World by A.E. Nordenskiold, translated by Alexander Leslie (1882) NY: Macmillan and Co. 8vo in a library binding, with 5 steel engraved portraits, maps and illustrations throughout (not complete), binding & hinges tight. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $90.00

[145] Strutt, Joseph. Horda Angel-Cynnan: Or A Compleat View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, & C. Of the Inhabitants of England, From the Arrival of the Saxons, Till the Reign of Henry the Eighth - 3 Volumes. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Publisher: London, (vol 1 & 2) Benjamin White, (vol. 3) Walter Shropshire. 1775-1776. Complete with 158 sepia tinted plates. 1) iv, 2 table, 112pp 1 errata, 68 plates (corner stain on last 30 plates). 2) 2 table, 129pp, 3, 60 plates. 3) 1 errata, 2, 192pp, 10 Index, 30 plates. All in library bindings, with binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $200.00

[146] ITALIAN HISTORY. A Group of 6 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***The History of Sicily From the Earliest Times by Edward A. Freeman, 4 Volumes, (1891-1894) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo, in original cloth bindings (one has library tape backstrip), complete with 16 maps (most folding, 1 has tear/repair) and 1 coin plate. One volume has taped hinges, others have front hinges starting with all bindings tight. ***The Roman History, From the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire - 2 Volumes, by Dr. Goldsmith (1770) 2nd Edition, London: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh.... 8vo, in library bindings, lacks title page in vol. 1, marginalia in pencil, foxing, hinges taped in vol. 2, bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $120.00
Realized bid price - $30.00
[147] SHELLS . A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Index Testaceologicus an Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells, Containing About 2800 Figures Accurately Coloured After Nature by W. Wood, with Ancient and Modern Appellations, Synonyms, Localities, etc. by Sylvanus Hanley (1856) Revised, London: Willis and Sotheran. 4to, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, with 46 HAND COLOURED PLATES, binding & hinges tight. ***A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands by William Turton (1819) London: John Booth. 16mo, in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, library cloth backstrip, corner leather chipped off, hinges taped, restitched. WITH 26 (OF 28) HAND COLORED PLATES. EST: $140.00 - $260.00
Realized bid price - $230.00
[148] . Memoirs of the Cardinal De Retz. Containing the Particulars of His Own Life, with the Most Secret Transactions at the French Court During the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin, and the Civil Wars Occasioned By It - 4 Volumes. London: Jacob Tonson, 1723. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Translated From the French, with Notes. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled cloth, marbled endpapers, library tape backstrips, hinges taped/cracked, few pages loose, lacks marbled free endpapers in one volume. Engraved frontis in Volume I, head & tail pieces, with flourished initials. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $40.00
[149] Mitford, William. The History of Greece - 8 Volumes. Boston: Timothy Bedlington and Charles Ewer, 1823. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spines, bindings & hinges tight. Covers show light corner/edge wear. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $70.00
[150] Massey, Gerald. A Book of the Beginnings. Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace - 2 Volumes. London: Williams and Norgate, 1881. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. viii, 503pp; 1 contents, double page plate, 1, 684pp in library bindings, with bindings & hinges tight. Occasional pencil notation, occasional edge chip/tear (not affecting the text). Includes philology. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $80.00
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