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[201] Dickens, Charles. The Christmas Carol - A Facsimile Reproduction of the Author's Original Ms. New York: Brentano's, 1890. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. LIMITED - #248/250 COPIES OF THE AMERICAN EDITION. Bound in paper over boards, deckled page edges, top edges gilt. Covers show edge/corner wear, chips to upper/lower backstrip, a few pages detached (paper brittle). FACSIMILE OF HAND WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT. Front hinge split, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
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[202] TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon by Bayle St. John (1849) 1st Edition, London: John Murray. 12mo in a library buckram binding, vi, 175pp, 1 ad, WITH MAP, frontis & title vignette. Binding & hinges tight, occasional edge chip to page. ***Eastward by Norman Macleod (1866) London: Alexander Strahan. 8vo in a decorative blind stamped library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Includes folding panorama, plates and text illustrations throughout. ***Under the Syrian Sun - The Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee and Judaea by A.C. Inchbold - 2 volumes (1906) London: Hutchinson & Co. 8vo in library bindings, color frontis in each volume, with color & b/w plates throughout, binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $110.00 |
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[203] TRAVEL. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***The Unknown River by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Illustrated (etchings) by the Author (1872) Boston: Roberts Brothers. Leather bound with library cloth over raised bands on spine, gilt & blind stamped cover, bevelled edges, inner gilt border, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, COMPLETE with title vignette & 36 ENGRAVED PLATES. Hinges taped, binding tight. ***Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky by J.M.D. (1853) 2nd Edition, Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. viii, 294pp, 16 publisher ads, bound in blind stamped cloth with bevelled edges, covers detached, engraved frontis with tissue guard intact. SCARCE. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[204] NATURAL HISTORY. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Natural History of Hawaii - Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants and Animals of the Group by William Alanson Bryan (1915) 1st Edition, Honolulu: The Hawaiian Gazette Co. Ltd. 4to in original cloth binding, 596pp on glossy paper, b/w illustrations throughout, gutter/backstrip wear/tear, binding tight. ***Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts, made and published by Order of the Government of That State, Illustrated by Numerous Wood Cuts and an Atlas of Plates by Edward Hitchcock (1833) Amherst: Press of J.S. and C. Adams. 8vo in a library binding, hinges taped, backstrip wear & chips, binding tight, occasional foxing. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $130.00 |
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[205] Morris, Rev. Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds - 6 Volumes. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1868. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Poor Condition. Only 109 (of 358) hand coloured plates, in library bindings. Brittle pages have chips and tears. COLORS BRIGHT. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $100.00 |
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[206] AMERICANA. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***History of Fort Wayne, From the Earliest Known Accounts of This Point, to the Present Period. Embracing an Extended View of the Aboriginal Tribes of the Northwest, Including, More Especially, the Miamies....with a Sketch of the Life of General Anthony Wayne.......a Biography of the Late Hon. Samuel Hanna by Wallace A. Brice (1868) Fort Wayne, Ind: D.W. Jones & Son, Steam Book and Job Printers. 8vo in original green cloth binding, frontis with tissue guard, plus 6 plates, illustrative tail-pieces. Covers show bumped corners, backstrip wear/tear, inner joint split, interior foxing. ***The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants Being a Description of the Plains, Game, Indians, &c. of the Great North American Desert by Richard Irving Dodge (1877) NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 8vo in a library binding, 19 (of 20) b/w plates, hinges starting, binding tight. ***America Picturesque and Descriptive - 3 Volumes by Joel Cook (1900) 1st Edition, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. 8vo in mismatched library bindings, frontis with tg in each volume, photographic plates with t/g's throughout, binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[207] [Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]. North and South - 2 Volumes - ASSOCIATION COPY. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good ++ Condition. THESE ARE NOT EX-LIBRARY BOOKS. ASSOCIATION COPY: Book labels of Hugh Walpole / Brackenburn, inside front covers. Also ownership name on ffp: "Anne Hutchinson - Southwell - Bought of H Young & Son, Liverpool Apr.2 1895- 18/-" Includes half-titles, advertising leaf for 3 Gaskell titles before title page in vol. I, 4pp advertising at the end of vol. I. 320pp, 361pp in original blind stamped brown cloth. Covers show slight surface rubbing, bumped/worn corners, edge bumps, loss at upper/lower edges of backstrips, backstrip lifting on vol. II, back hinges starting, occasional light foxing, bindings tight. EST: $800.00 - $1,200.00
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[208] POLITICS HERE & ABROAD. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***America: or A General Survey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent, with Conjectures on Their Future Prospects by Alexander Hill Everett (1827) 1st Edition, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea. 8vo, leather binding covered with protective library cloth, front cover detached, back hinge taped, occasional foxing, binding tight. ***Proportional Representation, or the Representation of Successive Majorities in Federal, State, Municipal, Corporate and Primary Elections by Charles R. Buckalew (1872) 1st Edition, Philadelphia: John Campbell & Son. 8vo in original cloth binding with bevelled edges, lacks top 2" of backstrip, binding & hinges tight. ***Works of Fisher Ames. Compiled by a Number of His Friends to Which are Prefixed Notices of His Life and Character (1809) 1st Edition, Boston: T.B. Wait & Co. 8vo in a library binding, portrait frontis, interior foxing, binding & hinges tight. ***The Sons of the Sires; a History of the Rise, Progress and Destiny of the American Party, and Its Probable Influence on the Next Presidential Election by A.B. Ely (1855) Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 12mo in a library binding, AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE ON THE TITLE PAGE, binding & hinges tight. ***A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days, Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons From the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego (1886) London: Chatto and Windus. 8vo in original gilt illustrated cloth binding, hand colored folding frontis of "The Rights of Women", illustrated throughout, loose signature, portion of upper backstrip lacking, title page detached. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[209] . Kaiserliche Gemaldegalerie Der Eremitage in St. Petersburg. Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft, Double Elephant - over 25" - 50" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Title, List of Plates and COMPLETE with 84 photogravures with a seal of authenticity on each plate, unbound as issued, in original 3/4 polished leather folding portfolio. Front cover detached. Library mark shows as light ink stamp on back of plates. IMPERIAL PICTURE GALLERY. EST: $200.00 - $600.00
Realized bid price - $350.00 |
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[210] . The Complete Works of E. Meissonier with Biography - First and Second Series. New York: J.W. Bouton, Double Elephant - over 25" - 50" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. SCARCE. Circa 1880. LIMITED - SUBSCRIBER'S COPY #143 of undetermined number of printings. COMPLETE with 104 heliogravure plates by Meissonier, MOSTLY MILITARY ART, some with tissue guards, unbound as issued, in 2 original envelope folding portfolios, lacking ties. Series One has Title, Contents, 9pp in English text and 52 plates in 5 sections, each with it's own title page. Series Two has Title, Contents and 52 plates in 5 sections, each with it's own title page. Library mark shows as light ink stamp on back of plate. EST: $1,000.00 - $3,000.00
Realized bid price - $500.00 |
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[211] Havard, Henry. Dictionnaire De L'Ameublement Et De La Decoration Depuis Le XIIIe Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours - 4 Volumes. Paris: Maison Quantin, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Circa 1890. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, double column format, plates (some chromolithographs highlighted with gold) and text illustrations throughout, binding & hinges tight. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, surface rubbing/chips, upper/lower backstrip edge wear. Text in French. DECORATIVE ARTS. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $240.00 |
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[212] . Isaiah Thomas's [and Junr's] Massachusett, Connecticut, RhodeIsland, New-Hampshire and Vermont Almanack 1803, 1805 & 1806. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Poor to Fair Condition. 3 volumes. Contents include: (1803) -"It is now neatly TwentySeven Years since the People of the United States cast off the yoke of Greatbritain, and declared themselves INDEPENDENT - Thousands have never seen this Important Declaration of the Congress of 1776; it ought to be in the possession of every friend to his country - and at the request of many it is recorded in this Almanack. Also, the use of Plaster of Paris for field manure, cures for the field & body and more. Restitched by hand, stains, edge curl, tears with occasional loss to page, foxing. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[213] . Isaiah Thomas, Junr's Massachusetts, Connecticut, RhodeIsland, New-Hampshire and Vermont Almanack 1807 & 1808. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Jun., 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 2 Volumes. Contents include Table of Values and Weight of Coins, Method of Destroying Caterpillars, Observations of the Great Solar Eclipse, Breaking Steers to the Plow and more. 1807 Almanack restitched, 1808 Almanack not stitched, edge curl, foxing. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[214] Griswold, Rufus Wilmot [with a Memoir by]. The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe - 4 Volumes. New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1859. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. lv, 483pp; xxvi, 495pp; iv, 21-607pp; xii, 13-447pp, bound in original blind stamped cloth. A few covers loose or detached, library tape on the backstrip of vol.1, lacking portions of backstrips, bindings tight. EST: $40.00 - $80.00
Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[215] Bruce of Kinnaird, James . Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 - in 6 Volumes. RARE DUBLIN IMPRINT: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Mis-matched bindings with occasional foxing. 61 total (of 62 plates) with 54 engraved plates, 4 folding maps and 3 folding battle plans as follows: Volume 1) 1790 Printed by William Sleater for P. Wogan & others. Half-title, title, 2 leaves of Contents, viii Dedication, lxxx Introduction, 381pp. with 6 engraved plates. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, 2 black leather spine labels intact, front cover detached, back cover starting, upper portion of backstrip lacking, lower portion of backstrip starting. Binding tight. 2) 1791, Printed for P. Wogan and others. Title, 3 leaves of Contents, 592pp, with 2 (of 3) engraved plates (lacks #7). Bound in full leather with red & brown spine labels (2). Front cover detached, back cover hinge taped, book in 2 pieces with split binding. 3) 1791, Printed by William Porter for P. Wogan and others. Title, 2 leaves of Contents, 687pp, with 1 folding map & 2 plates. Bound in full leather with library cloth backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. 4) 1791, Printed for P. Wogan and others. Title, 3 leaves of Contents, 777pp, with 3 folding battle plans and 1 plate. Bound in full leather with red & black leather spine labels (2). Front cover detached, back cover starting, book in 2 pieces with split binding. 5) 1791, Printed by Graisberry and Campbell for P. Wogan and others. Title, 3 leaves of Contents, 496pp, with zero plates/maps. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, black leather spine label, front hinge taped, back cover starting, binding tight. Includes The Register of the Barometer and Thermometer in Absyssinia, 1770. 6) SELECT SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. COLLECTED IN TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, IN EGYPT, ARABIA, ABSYSSINIA AND NUBIA. 1790, Printed by Zachariah Jackson for P. Wogan and others. xxiv, 286pp, [13 Index], [3 list of plates] with 43 plates (37 called for) and 3 folding maps. Bound in full leather, with library cloth backstrip, with portions of original backstrip & 2 labels laid over. Hinges taped, binding tight, the first map is in 2 pieces (all pieces present), 2nd map has tears/paper repairs, 3rd map has a small crease tear. EST: $1,000.00 - $2,000.00
Realized bid price - $2,200.00 |
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[216] Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre Graveur - 21 Volumes in 18. Wurzburg: Verlagsdruckerei Wurzburg, 1920. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Nouvelle Edition. STANDARD REFERENCE OF ENGRAVERS in French text, with illustrations. Bound in mustard paper over boards with maroon cloth backstrip showing gilt lettering & designs. Library cloth backstrip on volume 1, with the first few leaves detached. Pages show slight age yellowing, occasional cracked/taped hinge. BINDINGS TIGHT. EST: $300.00 - $600.00
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[217] CHILDREN'S. A Group of 9 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, with a Memoir by George Saintsbury - 2 Volumes (1887) NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press. 24mo in original decorative cloth covers, frontis with tissue guard in each volume, glossy paper, illustrated throughout. Front hinge cracked in Vol. 1, bindings tight, edge/corner wear. ***The Parish Baby's Scrap Book. Linen covers & pages, with ink stamped title on cover, mounted engravings of children and their activities, Santa Claus by Thomas Nast and more. 4to, 9 leaves, soiled/darkened, wear to plates. ***Out of Town by F.E. Weatherly & Linnie Watt (circa 1890) NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. 8vo in original illustrated paper over boards with cloth backstrip. Glossy pages with monotints (color) by Ernest Wilson, illustrations throughout. Poems for Children. Binding loose, covers worn. ***The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson (1902) 1st Thus, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 12mo in original ribbed cloth binding, binding & hinges tight, frontis has tg, illustrated throughout. ***A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore (1921) Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press. 8vo in original decorative paper over boards, with paper label. Colored woodcuts by Florence Wyman Ivins. Covers detached. ***Christmas Blossoms, and New Year's Wreath for 1848 by Uncle Thomas (1848) Boston: Phillips & Sampson. 12mo in original decorative cloth, frontis with tg, additional engraved title, aeg, engraved plates throughout. Covers detached, lacks backstrip, interior foxing, binding tight. ***Choice Stories for Young Folks (circa 1870) Boston: D. Lathrop & Co. No library marks. 16mo in original cloth binding, illustrated throughout, binding & hinges tight, occasional foxing. ***Once Upon a Time by A.A. Milne, illustrated by Charles Robinson (circa 1925) London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited. 12mo in a library binding, binding & hinges tight, illustrated throughout with one in color. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
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[218] . The Court and City Register. For the Year 1759. Corrected to the 18th of Nov. 1758.. London: Printed for John Rivington, P. Brindley......, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Containing an Almanack, New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament, the Court Register and Lists of the Army and Navy. Title, 3 Index, 1 Rates of Watermen, 2 Lists of both Houses, 240pp. Bound in full leather with gilt borders, raised bands on spine, with covers showing wear & scuffing, worn corners, backstrip wear with upper loss. Pages 231-238 lack lower half. BINDING TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[219] . Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, Treated Upon By the Bishop of London, President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury...... London: Printed By The Assign of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings Most Excellant Majesty, 1676. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Frontis, Title [1] 4 Constitutions, 69pp, 2 Witness [1] 6 Table. Leather bound with blind stamped borders, front cover detached, back cover starting, library cloth tape over backstrip, occasional damp mark, occasional marginalia. BINDING TIGHT. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $90.00 |
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[220] Hammond, H. [& Others). A Practicall Catechisme and Other Tracts, Bound as One. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Leather bound, raised bands on spine, with protective library cloth over covers due to split binding. 1) A Practicall Catechisme by H. Hammond (1646) Oxford. Title [1] 2 Contents, 116pp, 8 Table. 2) Of Conscience, Scandall, Will-Worship, and Superstition (1645) Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall. Title [1] 2 Preface, 65pp. 3) Of Sinnes of Weaknesse, Wilfullnesse, and Appendant to it, A Paraphrasticall Explanation of two difficult texts, Heb. 6 and Heb. 10 (1646) Oxford. Title [1] 18pp. 4) Of a Late, or A Death-Bed Repentance (1646) Oxford. Title [1] 19pp. 5) Of Resisting the Lawfull Magistrate Under Colour of Religion: and Appendant to it, of the Word Kplua, rendred Damnation, Rom. 13....(1644) Oxford: Printed for H.H. & W.W. Title [1] 61pp. 6) A View of the New Directory and a Vindication of the Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England; in Answer to the Reasons Pretended in the Ordinance and Preface, for the Abolishing the one, and Establishing the Other. (1646) 3rd Edition, Oxford: Henry Hall. Title [1] 6 Preface, 88pp. 7) Large Additions to the Practicall Catechisme by Henry Hammond (1646) London: Printed by M.F. for R. Royston. Title [1] 4 Epistle, 66pp. 8) Considerations of Present Use Concerning the Danger Resulting from the Change of our Church-Government (1644). Title [1] 13pp. 9) Of Idolatry (1646) Oxford: Henry Hall. Title [1] 36pp. 10) A View of Some Exceptions Which Have Beene Made By a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Falkland's Discourse of the Infallibilitie of the Church of Rome (1646) Oxford: Printed for R. Royston & R. Davis. Title [1] 6 To the Reader, 204pp. Book has occasional damp mark, occasional foxing. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[221] Kempis, Thomas a' [written Originally in Latin by] & Stanhope, George. The Christian's Pattern: Or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ - 4 Books in One. London: Printed By M. Roberts for D. Brown, R. Sare & Others, 1704. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Fourth Edition, To Which are Added Meditations and Prayers for Sick Persons. Engraved frontis, Title [1] 2 dedication, 3 preface [1] 4 contents 339pp [1] 45 ad to Reader, 1 author ad, with 3 addtional engraved plates, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper. Front cover held in place with exterior cloth tape, back cover nearly detached, binding tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[222] Hokusai. Selections From Hokusai's Views of Mount Fiji - Volume 2. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Soft Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. Circa 1905. 12 Color wood block reproductions on high quality tannish hosho paper, folded over stiffener paper. Horizontal format, Japanese accordian style pages with silk ties. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[223] Lennox, Mrs. (Charlotte). The Female Quixote; or, the Adventures of Arabella - 2 Volumes. London: Printed for F.C. & J. Rivington, W. Otridge & Son, A. Strahan....., 1810. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. Part of the British Novelists Series. Bound in tree calf, with gilt borders, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges all around. Lacks front cover on vol. I, back cover detached, with cloth over backstrip. Vol. II has cloth backstrip. Bindings tight. EST: $40.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[224] LITERATURE. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Hyperion, A Romance by (William Wadsworth Longfellow), 2 volumes in 1, (1839) NY: Samuel Colman. 12mo, 213pp, 226pp, bound in 3/4 black leather & cloth. Interior foxing with occasional paper repair, upper/lower backstrip edge reinforced & starting. Binding tight. ***The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: in 2 Volumes, Adorn'd with Cuts (1707) 10th Edition, London: Jacob Tonson. 8vo in blind stamped leather, raised bands on spine, 3 hinges reinforced, cover edges worn with leather curling/chips, cloth backstrip on vol. I, front cover & leaves to title page detached on Vol. II. Bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[225] Culin, Stewart. Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1895. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. SCARCE. LIMITED EDITION #147 of 550 and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xxxvi, 177pp bound in illustrated cloth, bevelled edges, with top edges gilt. Complete with 22 tissue-guarded coloured plates & 135 text illustrations. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, age darkening, upper/lower edge wear to backstrip, front hinge taped. Binding tight, in a protective mylar jacket. EST: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Realized bid price - $400.00 |