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[176] . COLONIAL RECORDS. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good Condition. 1 of 50 copies. Original hand written sheet bound in, reads "Miss Maria J.B. Browne, this copy (seven sheets) of Colonial records in the Spanish and two of the early languages of Florida-Aplachian and Timuquan - from her friend - Buckingham Smith". Smith was a linguist and also the translator of "The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca". He was also involved in the Florida everglades ecosystem in the 1800's. The book was then donated to the library by Maria J.B. Browne. Documents on laid paper. **1) by Diego De Quiroga Y Lossada. **2) Fr. Marcelo De S. Joseph. **3) 3 page manuscript (facsimile?) Car Los Atu Lu Pin Holahta Pula qui achit Pin Rey Chuba. **4) 4 page, Carlos Segundo Nro Casique Principal Y Nro Mayor Rey by Alonsso Solana. **5) Sr Govr Y Cappn Gl D. Diego De Quiroga Y Losada by Fr. Franco Roxas. **6) Manuscript (facsimile?), Ereihe Ca Ano Coni La. **7) 2 page, Al Rey Nro. Senor by Alonsso Solana. Bound in half leather & paper over boards. Covers show edge/corner chips. Binding tight. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $500.00 |
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[177] Grose, Francis & Astle, Thomas. The Antiquities of Ireland - 2 Volumes. London: Printed for S. Hooper, First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1791-1795. 261 engraved plates, with text and title vignettes. Bound in leather with raised bands on spines, gilt & blind stamped borders on covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with silk ribbon page markers. Chipping to top of backstrips, moderate foxing. Bindings tight. EST: $300.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $1,200.00 |
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[178] Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of Scotland - 2 Volumes. London: Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, 1797. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Title vignettes, large hand colored folding map and 190 engraved plates, with descriptive text. Bound in leather with raised bands on spines, gilt borders & blind stamped designs on covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges all around, with ribbon page markers. Front cover detached on vol. II, chips to top/heel of backstrips, moderate foxing. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[179] Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of England and Wales - 8 Volumes. London: Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. New Edition. Bound in leather with gilt & blind stamped borders, raised bands on spines, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with silk ribbon page markers. Maps and engraved plates throughout (some folding). Includes the large folding map of England and Wales, frontis in each volume, with title vignettes. Some backstrip wear, one front cover nearly detached, occasional interior foxing. Bindings tight. EST: $300.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $850.00 |
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[180] Edwards, Jonathan. A Group of 10 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***The Works of Jonathan Edwards Late President of Union College with a Memoir of His Life and Character by Tryon Edwards (1842) Andover: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell. Volume 2 only (of 2). 556pp, in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. ***The Works of President Edwards in Ten Volumes (1829) NY: S. Converse. Volumes 2-10 only. Mixed bindings, library buckram and leather. Some books have split bindings with detached covers, others with bindings & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $200.00 Realized bid price - $70.00 |
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[181] . The Fashionable Tour: Or, A Trip to the Springs, Niagara, Quebeck and Boston, in the Summer of 1821 . Saratoga Springs: G.M. Davison, 1822. First Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. First U.S. Guide Book to a pleasure tour, with mention of the Erie Canal under construction (pg 92-93). 165pp bound in 1/2 leather & paper. Cover worn at edges/corners & upper backstrip, interior foxing. Front hinge starting, binding tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[182] TRAVEL. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Across America and Asia - Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China by Raphael Pumpelly (1870) 1st Edition, NY: Leypoldt & Holt. 8vo, complete with 12 plates, 4 maps (3 folding, 1 colored) and 12 text illustrations. Bound in original gilt illustrated cloth with bevelled edges, library cloth backstrip. Covers show edge/corner wear, hinges taped, inner joint split. ***Three Men In a Motor Car or A Summer Tour in France and Switzerland, Followed by Some Observations on Kindred Topics by Winthrop E. Scarritt (1906) 1st Edition, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. 12mo in a library binding, frontis and plates, binding & hinges tight. ***A Year of Consolation by Mrs. Butler, 2 Volumes in 1, (1847) NY: Wiley & Putnam. 8vo, in 3/4 leather & marbled paper. Diary/travelogue of Fanny Kemble, best known for her stage career. Lacks backstrip, covers detached. ***Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1860) NY: Harper & Brothers. 8vo, INCLUDES FOLDING MAP (has crease tear), with illustrations throughout. Bound in original illustrated blue cloth, with blind stamping. Front gutter starting, wear to top/heel of backstrip, binding tight. ***Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and Part of Central Asia by Thomas Witlan Atkinson (1860) NY: Harper & Brothers. 8vo, INCLUDES THE FOLDING MAP (has crease tears), illustrated throughout. Bound in blind stamped cloth, cloth tape over backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. EST:$80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $110.00 |
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[183] Toppan, Robert Noxon [memoir by]. Edward Randolph; Including His Letters and Official Papers From the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies in America, With Other Documents Relating Chiefly to the Vacating of the Royal Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. 1676-1703. 5 Volumes. Boston: The Prince Society, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1898-1899. With historical illustrations and a memoir by Toppan. Complete in 5 Volumes. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spines, marbled endpapers. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Covers detached on volume I, otherwise bindings & hinges tight. Covers show corner wear, some wear to upper/lower edges of backstrips. No library pockets. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[184] EXPLORATION. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Fighting the Polar Ice by Anthony Fiala (1906) 1st Edition, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. 4to, WITH FOLDING MAP (has tears), frontis, with plates throughout. Bound in 3/4 buckram and marbled paper, with red leather spine label. Binding & hinges tight. ***The Exploration of the World. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne (1887) NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 8vo, frontis with illustrations throughout, bound in cloth. Covers worn, a few signatures sprung. ***The Exploration of the World. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne (1880) NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 8vo in a library binding, hinges taped, binding tight. Frontis, title vignette, with illustrations throughout. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $70.00 |
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[185] . Historic American Buildings Survey Sheets & Map. U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, Branch of Plans and Design, Ex-Library. Good Condition. Survey sheets for ***Commandants House Navy Yard, Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Mass. Built 1809-1823. Arthur R.Kennedy Del. Complete in 7 sheets, Survey No. 2-10. ***Buck House, Buck's Creek, West Chatham, Barnstable Co., Mass. Before 1790. Lewis M. Lawrence, Del. Complete in 5 sheets, Survey No. 2-8. Sheets measure 17-1/2" tall by 23-1/4" wide. *** Double Page, 1934 Map of Massachusetts showing locations of Buildings of Historic and Architectural Interest. Map measures 23" tall by 36" wide, with hangers on the back. Map is bordered by sketches of the houses. All in a protective folding portfolio. EST: $100.00 - $300.00 Realized bid price - $150.00 |
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[186] Davies, Norman De Garis. The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes - Volume I of the Robb De Peyster Tytus Memorial Series. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1 of 500 on Van Gelder Handmade Paper. Edited by Albert M. Lythgoe. 30 (of 31) plates consisting of photogravures, mounted color plates and outlines, with captioned tissue guards (lacks plate 23). Along with 12 figures as called for. xxv [1] 79pp [3]. With original paper front cover, disbound, in a protective folding portfolio. ALONG WITH AN ADDITIONAL BOOK - Thebes - The Glory of a Great Past by Jean Capart and Marcelle Werbrouck (1926) Lincoln Mac Veagh, NY: The Dial Press. Folio, frontis with b/w illustrations throughout, in original illustrated cloth, hinges taped, binding tight. EST: $200.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $800.00 |
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[187] Ridpath, John Clark. Great Races of Mankind (6 of 8 Volumes). Cincinnati: Jones Brothers Publishing Co., 1893. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. Edition De Luxe - LIMITED #16 of 400. NOT EX-LIBRARY. Includes volumes II, IV, V, VI, VII & VIII. Original cloth bindings with paper spine labels, top edges gilt, illustrated throughout, glossy pages. Some hinges cracked, occasional foxing. Bindings tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[188] Gersdorf, E.G.. Bibliotheca Patrum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Selecta - Volumes I - XI. Lipsiae: Sumtibus Bernh. Tauchnitz, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. 1838-1844. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper. Lacks spine labels, covers detached on 2 volumes, backstrip chips on 3 volumes. Bindings tight. THEOLOGY. EST: $40.00 - $100.00 Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[189] Mall, Thomas. The History of the Martyrs Epitomised. A Cloud of Witnesses; or, the Sufferers Mirrour....- 2 Volumes in 1. Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1747. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. In Very Good Condition. [16] 267pp, [2]; [4] xi [1] 292pp, [4]. Bound in black pebbled cloth (library binding), with binding & hinges tight. Title continues: Made up of The Swanlike Songs, and Other Choice Passages of a Great Number of Martyrs and Confessors, to the End of the Sixteenth Century, in their Treatises, Speeches, Letters, Prayers, &c. in their Prisons, or Exiles; at the Bar, or Stake &c. EST: $100.00 - $250.00 Realized bid price - $70.00 |
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[190] THEOLOGY. A Group of 7 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne - 2 Volumes (1836) New Edition, Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co. 4to, WITH FOLDING MAPS , folding plate & folding table. Bound in leather with leather spine labels (labels chipped), marbled page edges, marbled endpapers. Covers have peeling, covers detached on Vol. II, bindings tight. ***The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis - 4 Volumes (1853-1856) London: Henry G. Bohn. 12mo, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spines. Library cloth tape over 2 of the backstrips, hinges cracked or taped, bindings tight. ***The Pilgrimage of a Pilgrim, For Forty Years, as He Journeyed To, and Through, and From, the Partialist Church, Into and Through Sixteen Years' Experience in the Universalist Ministry - and Not Yet Done by Abraham Norwood (1851) 3rd Edition, Boston: Published by the Pilgrim for the Purchaser. 16mo, in original blind stamped cloth, binding & hinges tight, occasional foxing. EST: $80.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[191] Gilliland, Thomas. The Dramatic Mirror: Containing the History of the Stage, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Including a Biographical and Critical Account of All the Dramatic Writers..... 2 Volumes in 1. London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1808. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 17 engraved plates as called for. Frontis, xii, 1048pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, gilt decorated spine, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers. Covers rubbed, edge/corner wear, lacks 1/3 of backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. EST: $200.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $140.00 |
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[192] Tajima, S. [edited by]. Selected Relics of Japanese Art - Volumes I - XI. Kyoto, Japan: Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai, Zenkyoan, Kenninji, Shimokyoku, First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1899-1905. Photographed and collotyped by K. Ogawa. In original decorative stiff paper wraps, in original cloth portfolios, with bone clasps & paper labels on covers. Japanese accordian style pages, with descriptive tissue guards, text in Japanese & English, page edges gilt top and bottom, bound by purple silk ties. Color and b/w plates, some folding. Vol. X - portfolio cover detached and lacks silk ties. Vol. XI - portfolio cover nearly detached, lacks book cover, lacks silk ties. Other books in near fine condition, with portfolios showing grime and edge wear. EST: $400.00 - $1,000.00 Realized bid price - $850.00 |
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[193] Bobrinsky, Count A.A. {Aleksey Aleksandrovich}. Russian Folk Wooden Carvings - 6 Portfolios. Mockba & Leipzig: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Ex-Library. Good Condition. SCARCE. Text in Russian, with typed English text laid in. Volumes 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 & 11. 107 photographic plates on hard stock ( 2 in color), unbound as issued, in original matching portfolios. Volumes published in Mockba are titled - Narodyja Russkija Dereviannyja Izdielija (vol. 5, 6, 7 & 10). Volumes published in Leipzig have additional title on paper label reading - Volkstumliche Russische Holzarbeiten (vol. 9 & 11). Pencil notations on edge of plates (not affecting the images), library ink stamp on back of plates, portfolios have library tape over backstrip. Volume 7 has some duplicates. EST: $600.00 - $1,200.00 Realized bid price - $450.00 |
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[194] BRITISH. A Group of 13 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Robert W. Lowe - 2 Volumes (1889) London: John C. Nimmo. 8vo in mis-matched cloth bindings (one trimmed in a library binding). Limited #248/510. Library cloth tape over backstrip of original binding. ***Diary of Thomas Burton, edited and illustrated by John Towill Rutt - 4 volumes (1828) 1st Edition, London: Henry Colburn. 8vo in library bindings, bindings & hinges tight, occasional foxing. ***Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne. Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, with Notes & Illustrations by Robert C. Leslie (1889) 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 8vo in a library binding, 16 (of 20) plates, some detached. Hinges taped, inner joint split. ***Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law by Frederic Seebohm (1902) 1st Edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo, in original cloth, with library tape backstrip, hinges taped, binding tight. ***Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Edward Walford, Volumes 3-6, London: Cassell Petter & Galpin. 4to in mismatched library bindings. Illustrated, double column format, bindings & hinges tight. ***The Franchise Considered In a Letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. (1866) 100 copies printed for Private Circulation. 8vo, in a library binding, with original paper cover mounted on. 6 leaves, binding & hinges tight. EST: $140.00 - $250.00 Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[195] . Domesday-Book - 4 Volumes. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. 1783-1816. With engraved plates, (some in color). **1) Domesday-Book Seu Liber Censualis (1783) 4 leaves, 382 leaves, front hinge cracked, binding tight. **2) Domesday-Book Seu Liber Censualis (1783) 2 leaves, 450 leaves, binding & hinges tight, crushed upper corner to front cover. **3) Domesday- Book.... Indices (1816) 6 leaves, cvii [1] 579pp, binding tight, front cover detached. **4) Domesday-Book....Additamenta Ex Codic. Antiquiss (1816) 2 leaves, xvii (7) 635pp, binding & hinges tight. Bound in 3/4 leather & paper, raised bands on spines, deckled page edges. OVERSIZED. Occasional light foxing., edge/corner wear EST: $400.00 - $700.00 Realized bid price - $950.00 |
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[196] . JAPANESE PRINT BOOKS - 4 Volumes. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Poor Condition. Circa 1898. Four original portfolios, containing 4 books bound in illustrated cloth over boards, with paper label on covers, bevelled edges, wrapped in crepe paper. Containing 124 plates with descriptive tissue guards (in Japanese), many in color (some highlighted with gold), with all edges gilt. Portfolios in poor condition and some lacking bone clasps, Books would have been bound by silk cords, but are now disbound. Lacks some plates, a few plates trimmed. EST: $200.00 - $400.00 Realized bid price - $375.00 |
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[197] 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) Fronts, title [1] 244-543pp. A total of 10 plates. Leather binding, raised bands on spines, brown leather spine labels (lacks 1), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, inner dentelles. Illustrated title pages, head and tail-pieces. Front covers detached, bindings tight, occasional foxing, occasional pencil notation. EST: $200.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $130.00 |
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[198] LITERATURE. A Group of 8 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri [translated by Thomas G. Bergin] - 3 Volumes, ILLUSTRATED BY LEONARD BASKIN (1969) 1st Printing, NY: Grossman Publishers. Folio, in original cloth & paper bindings. Spine darkened, lacks slipcase, minimal library markings with no pockets. Binding & hinges tight. ***The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull the Clothier by (Jeremy Belknap) (1796) 2nd edition, Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. 16mo bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, black leather spine label. Covers detached, binding tight. ***Manhattan by Joseph I.C. Clarke, Henry Hudson by Elbert Hubbard (1910) East Aurora: Roycrofters. 8vo bound in illustrated paper over boards, with cloth spine, deckled page edges, binding & hinges tight. ***The Motto Book - Being a Catalogue of Epigrams by Fra Elbertus (1909) East Aurora: Roycrofters. 8vo in stiff wraps, taped backstrip, soiled covers. Illustrated. ***So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine by Elbert Hubbard - 2 copies (1914) East Aurora: Roycrofters. 12mo bound in blind stamped limp leather, damp mark in one volume, edge/corner wear. EST: $60.00 - $150.00 Realized bid price - $40.00 |
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[199] . Gospel of Matthew in Chinese. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ASSOCIATION - PRESENTED BY REV . DR. IDE . Accordian folded tissue pages, bound in marbled paper over boards, with library cloth tape backstrip. Covers have slight buckle, hinges taped, binding tight. EST: $200.00 - $500.00 Realized bid price - $150.00 |
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[200] . The Koran - Manuscript. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Good Condition. "This manuscript copy of the Koran was presented by the ex-Sultan Mormanda Mohammed III, ruler of Dikoa, Northern Cameroons, to Mr. Henry Gils, former war correspondent, now residing in Springfield (MA). Mr. Gils met this learned Moslem in 1917 after the fall of Morra Hills, in the Mandurra country in West Africa. He met him again in 1935 in French Somaliland. A Koran in the possession of a Christian while traveling through the desert country assures its bearer of aid and protection from the Moslem tribes. This copy was given Mr. Gils as a token of everlasting friendship". 601 handwritten leaves, Arabic script on versos and rectos, in red, black and yellow ink. 14 lines per page, with wide margins, on laid paper. Unbound as issued, with heavy cardboard covers. Includes a prayer on folded paper, meant to be worn on the body for protection. Unpaginated, uncollated, sold as is. Occasional damp mark on outer edge, not affecting the text. EST: $800.00 - $2,000.00 |
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