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[201] BRITISH DRAMA. A Group of 3 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***Biographia Dramatica or, A Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers, originally compiled 1764 by David Erskine Baker. Continued Thence to 1782 by Isaac Reed. And Brought down to the End of November 1811 by Stephen Jones. 3 Volumes bound in 2. Complete. (1812) London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees..... Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, deckled page edges. Bindings tight. ***The Modern British Drama - Volume the Third - Comedies (1811) London : Printed for William Miller. Bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine. Scuffed covers, edge/corner wear, binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[202] Nehru, Jawaharlal [Forward by]. Nuclear Explosions and Their Effects. Government of India : The Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 1958. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. In Very Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. Complete with 8 charts & map, some folding. xv, [1] 276pp, [2], A-1 to A-64. Bound in original orange cloth with paper label on cover. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[203] LITERATURE. A Group of 2 Volumes as Listed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. **Bright Skin by Julia Peterkin (1923) AUTOGRAPHED EDITION, Limited #61 of 250, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 348pp in original maroon cloth with bevelled edges, top edges gilt. Binding & hinges tight. Small ownership label inside cover. ***The Old Man and the Sea by Ernerst Hemingway (1952) NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. With a dust jacket, showing stains and edge chips/tears, in a mylar cover. Although this is a book club edition, there is an anomaly of several pages being blank. Letter (A) on copyright page, binding & hinges tight. Covers soiled. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $190.00 |
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[204] . Giant Hands. Fairy Tale Series. New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1892. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. SCARCE. 16pp bound in color illustrated paper over boards, with b/w illustrations throughout. Slight bow to covers, backstrip wear/chips. Binding & hinges tight. In a protective mylar cover. EST: $60.00 - $100.00
Realized bid price - $30.00 |
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[205] CHILDREN'S. A Group of 10 Volumes as Listed. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***High Jinks in Jingle Land, verse by Howard A. Guilford, Drawings by Leslie E. Wilcox (1922) MN: Juvenile Publishing Co. 12mo, oblong format, soft cover, color illustrations throughout. In stiff wraps, showing cover creases, chips to last page. ***More "Graphic" Pictures by Randolph Caldecott (1887) 1st Edition, London: George Routledge & Sons. 4to, oblong format, hard cover, color illustrations throughout. Cover show wear, occasional foxing. ***Gleanings from the "Graphic" by Randolph Caldecott (1889) 1st Edition, London: George Routledge & Sons. 4to, oblong format, hard cover, covers show wear, color & b/w illustrations throughout. ***The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith (1906) 1st Edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 8vo, oblong format, hard cover, color illustrations throughout. Some edge chips to pages, not affecting the text, nor images. ***Foreign language children's book (1926) Berlin, copyright by Ullstein A.G. With inscription on ffp: Budapest 1934. 4to, oblong format, hard cover, color illustrations throughout. Foxing to covers & prelims. ***The King's Breakfast by A.A. Milne, Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard (1925) 1st Edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd. 4to, hard cover, with a dust jacket. Soiling, chips & tears to jacket, in a protective mylar cover. Foxing on prelims. Musical notation throughout. ***Ever New Stories (1931) Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Co. 8vo, hard cover with a dust jacket (dj has chips/tears, in a protective mylar cover). Color & b/w illustrations throughout. Occasional foxing. ***A B C Eller Barnens Forsta Bok For Skolan Och Hemmet by A. Hult (circa 1890) Illinois: Lutheran Augustana Book Concern. 12mo, hard cover, text in Swedish, b/w illustrations throughout. ***The Heroes: or, Greek Fairy Tales For My Children by Charles Kingsley (1907) NY: Fredk. A Stokes Co. 16mo, hard cover, color plates throughout. ***Pictures and Stories From Forgotten Children's Books by Arnold Arnold (1969) NY: Dover Publications, Inc. 8vo, oblong format, soft cover, illustrated throughout. EST: $120.00 - $250.00
Realized bid price - $180.00 |
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[206] Montfaucon, Bernard De. L'Antiquite Expliquee Et Representee En Figures - 5 Volumes in 9 (of 10) Volumes. Paris: Florentin Delaulne & Others, 1719. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. With 885 engraved plates, of which 132 are double page, of which 7 are folding. Bound in 3/4 leather & silk moire, raised bands on spines, maroon spine labels. Title pages in red & black with title vignettes, chapter vignettes, head & tail pieces, flourished initials, historiated intitials. Lacks Volume 2/part 2. Occasional foxing, occasional closed tear on page. Binding & hinges tight. Covers show edge/corner wear, occasional loss to silk. EST: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Realized bid price - $4,000.00 |
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[207] . The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. New York: Russell F. Whitehead, First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Good Condition. Volumes 5 through 7 bound together in a library binding, 1919-1921. Volumes 8 through 12 bound together in a library binding, 1922-1926. Volumes 15 through 17 bound together in a library binding, 1929-1931. ALSO - Volume 10, Number 3, original soft cover, 1924 and Volume XI, Number 5, original soft cover, 1925. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[208] Poli, Matthaei [Poole, Matthew]. Synopsis Criticorum Aliorumque S. Scripturae Interpretum - 4 Volumes in 5. Londini [London]: J. Flesher & T. Roycroft, First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. 1669-1676. SCRIPTURE SYNOPSIS IN LATIN. Text in double column format, leather bindings (suede on volumes 1-2), raised bands on spines, marbled page edges (on volumes 3-5), leather spine labels (on volumes 2-4). Some covers detached, covers worn, interior foxing, occasional edge damp mark, one inner joint split. ALONG WITH - Volumes 4 & 5 of the Frankfurt Edition, dated 1678-1679, bound in vellum, with binding & hines tight. ALTOGETHER 7 VOLUMES. EST: $200.00 - $400.00
Realized bid price - $475.00 |
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[209] ENGRAVING & LITHOGRAPHY. A Group of 4 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. ***An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of Engraving, Upon Copper and in Wood, with an Account of Engravers and Their Works....by William Young Ottley - Volume 1 only (1816) 1st Edition, London: Printed for John and Arthur Arch. 4to bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, engravings throughout. Covers scuffed, binding & hinges tight. ***L'Oeuvre Grave Et Lithographie De Felicien Rops by Maurice Exsteens - Volumes 3 & 4 only, (1928) Paris: Editions Pellet. Folio in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spines, with maroon leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, glossy paper, illustrated throughout. Binding & hinges tight. ***A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne, translated by J.A. Delaborde (nd) Paris: Societe des Beaux-Arts. LIMITED #41, 8vo with 8 etchings as called for. Lacks portfolio of 15 plates. In original paper covers, laid in the original, protective, decorative leather portfolio (lacks backstrip), with silk lining. Text in English & French. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $160.00 |
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[210] ARUNDEL SOCIETY. A Group of 6 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. ***Giotto and His Works in Padua: Being an Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel by John Ruskin (1854), 1st Edition, Printed for the Arundel Society. 4to in 3/4 leather & cloth, raised bands on spine, top edges gilt, illustrated, binding & hinges tight. ***The Life of Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole, Translated from the Italian of Vasari by Giovanni Aubrey Bezzi (1850) Printed for the Arundel Society. 4to bound in 3/4 leather & cloth, raised bands on spine, top edges gilt, mounted plates throughout, binding & hinges tight. ***The Life of Pope Pius II as Illustrated by Pinturicchio's Frescoes in the Piccolomini Library at Siena by the Rev. G.W. Kitchin (1881) Printed for the Arundel Society. 4to, rebound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, lacks the engravings, binding & hinges tight. ***Descriptive Notice of the Drawings and Publications of The Arundel Society by Frederic W. Maynard (1869) London: J.B. Nichols and Sons. 4to in original blind stamped cloth, front hinge cracked, one signature loose. ***Descriptive Notice of the Drawings and Publications of the Arundel Society from 1849 to 1868 & 1869 to 1873, 2 Volumes by Frederic W. Maynard (1869/1873) London: J.B. Nichols and Sons. Folio, in gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges, disbound, mounted plates throughout. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $50.00 |
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[211] Couch, Jonathan. A History of the Fishes of the British Isles - Volumes 1, 2 & 4. London: Groombridge and Sons, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair Condition. 1867-1869. HAND PAINTED FISH PLATES THROUGHOUT. In library bindings, a few pages detached, uncollated and sold as is. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $600.00 |
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[212] NEW ENGLAND & CANADIAN REFERENCE. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. . Hard Cover. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***History of the Origin of the Town of Clinton Massachusetts 1653-1865 by Andrew E. Ford (1896) Clinton: Press of W.J. Coulter. 8vo, in original blind stamped cloth, complete with all plates and maps. Hinges starting, binding tight. ***Stetson Shoe Compny CATALOG. Dept. 5 Stock Book, Number Twenty-Six, Containing Descriptions and Illustrations of Civilian and Military Styles in Stock July 1, 19 19 (1919) So. Weymouth, Mass: Stetson Shoe Co. 4to in original paper over boards with cloth spine, 36pp on glossy paper, photographic illustrations of shoes (lacks 2 leaves), binding & hinges tight. ***Wrigley's Hotel Directory - 1953 Edition. Official Directory of Hotel Association of Canada Inc. (1953) Vancouver: Wrigley Directories Ltd. 8vo in original blue cloth, 564pp, binding & hinges tight. ***New Hampshire Register, Number 134, 1926-1927. Business Directory and State Year Book (1926) Rochester, NH: The Record Press. 8vo in original cloth, binding & hinges tight. ***New Hampshire Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual - No. 150, 1947 (1947) Portland, ME: Fred L. Tower Companies. 8vo in original cloth, binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
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[213] Stevens, Wallace. The Man With the Blue Guitar & Other Poems. New York/London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. First Edition, Second Issue, with "conjunctions" on the front flap of the dust jacket, price listed as $2.00 net. Dust jacket in a mylar cover, shows edge wear/chips and slight darkening. Book covers are foxed, owners name on ffp, binding & hinges tight. EST: $100.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[214] Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. First Edition, First Issue, of this author's first book. Bound in black cloth with white lettering, publisher's circled "R" on copyright page, dust jacket designed by Karov, in red and black, with price of $4.00 on front flap. Covers show light foxing, foxing to outer top page edges, owners name on ffp, back hinge cracked, binding tight. Dust jacket in a mylar cover, shows age darkening, edge wear/chips. EST: $200.00 - $400.00
Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[215] Coward, Noel. The Plays of Noel Coward - First Series. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Condition. NOT-EX-LIBRARY. Bound in original cloth with paper labels. Dust Jacket in poor condition, in a mylar cover, lacking pieces. Covers show bumped corners, owners name on ffp, light foxing to covers. Binding & hinges tight. EST: $60.00 - $150.00
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[216] POETRY. A Group of 7 Volumes as Listed. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***Ballad of the Frigate Franklin and Other Poems by Muriel Kinney (1939) 1st Edition, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, N. Montpelier , VT : The Driftwood Press. 12mo, softcover, stapled booklet. ***Seasons of the Soul - A Book of Meditations by Robert T. Weston (1963) Boston : Unitarian Universalist Assoc. 8vo, softcover, stapled booklet, glossy paper, occasional foxing. ***A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell (1932) NY: Three Sirens Press. 8vo, hard cover, with glassine and slipcase. Covers age darkened, owners name on ffp, binding & hinges tight. ***A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman (1932) NY: Grosset & Dunlap. 8vo hard cover, in a slipcase, cameo on front cover, binding & hinges tight. Chips to slipcase. *** Paradise Lost: A Poem by John Milton (1835) Exeter : J. and B. Williams. 32mo, bound in leather, gilt decorated spine, owners name, interior foxing. Binding & hinges tight. ***Emerald Rainbow by Mary E.S. Simonds (1965) 1st Edition, Boston : Thomas Todd Co. 8vo hard cover in a glassine wrapper, binding & hinges tight. ***Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited with notes by Robert Bridges (1937) 2nd edition, London : Oxford University Press. 12mo hard cover with a dust jacket, in a mylar cover. Age darkening to dj, light foxing to covers, owners name on ffp, binding & hinges tight. EST: $80.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $20.00 |
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[217] BEAT. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Good Condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac (1958) 1st Edition, NY: Viking Press. 8vo hard cover, bound in black cloth, with an illustrated dust jacket, protected in a mylar cover. Light foxing to end papers, dust jacket shows light edge wear/chips, with light foxing. Binding & hinges tight. ***Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1966) 1st Thus, NY: Grove Press, Inc. 12mo, soft cover, age darkening, light crease to cover, binding & hinges tight. ***On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1958) NY: Signet. 12mo, soft cover, age darkened, lower backstrip wear, binding & hinges tight. ***Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac (1959) NY: Avon . 12mo, soft cover, age darkened, cover crease. ***The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac (1958) NY: Grove Press, Inc. 8vo, soft cover, light foxing to covers. EST: $100.00 - $200.00
Realized bid price - $180.00 |
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[218] MODERN FICTION & BIOS. A Group on 10 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (1981) NY: E.P. Dutton. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Book and Dust Jacket in near fine condition. ***Open Season by Archer Mayor (1988) 1st Edition, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Book and Dust Jacket in near fine condition. ***Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait by Edward Wagenknecht (1955) 1st Edition, NY: Longman's Green & Co. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With a dust jacket (foxed). Foxing to prelims, binding & hinges tight. ***Mrs. Longfellow: Selected Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow (1817-1861) edited by Edward Wagenknecht (1956) 1st Edition, NY: Longmans, Green and Co. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Dust jacket & prelims foxed, binding & hinges tight. *** Henderson the Rain King - A Novel by Saul Bellow (1959) 2nd Printing before puiblication, NY: The Viking Press. Book in VG condition, dust jacket in poor condition. Binding & hinges tight. ***The Track of the Cat. A Novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1949) 1st Edition, NY: Random House. Book & dust jacket in Very Good ++ condition. Binding & hinges tight. ***The Guermantes Way - 2 Volumes, by Marcel Proust (1928) 2nd Printing, NY: Albert & Charles Boni. Paper labels on spines, binding & hinges tight, occasional foxing. ***Prothalamium. A Cycle of the Holy Grail. A Novel by Philip Toynbee (1947) 1st Edition, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc. Dust jacket age darkened, binding & hinges tight. ***Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright (1958) 1st Edition, NY: Rinehart & Company, Inc. Foxing to dust jacket & top of outer page edges, binding & hinges tight. EST: $160.00 - $300.00
Realized bid price - $200.00 |
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[219] . The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New - King James Bible. Cleveland , Ohio : World Publishing Company, . Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, WITH A SLIPCASE. NOT EX-LIBRARY. Facsimile of the first impression of the original 1611 edition of the King James Bible. LIMITED - #934/1500. On laid paper made by the Ventura Mill at Cernobbio and bound in leather in Italy . Gutters starting on covers. EST: $200.00 - $500.00
Realized bid price - $425.00 |
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[220] JAMES JOYCE & GERTRUDE STEIN. A Group of 7 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. In Good Condition. All with dust jackets, in mylar covers. NOT EX-LIBRARY. ***Ulysses by James Joyce (1934) NY: Random House. 8vo, in buckram with bevelled edges, darkened dj with large chips, front hinge starting, binding tight, owner's name on ffp. ***James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses by Frank Budgen (1934) 1st Edition, NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass. 8vo in red cloth, complete with 5 plates, binding & hinges tight, darkened dj with edge wear. ***James Joyce a Critical Introduction by Harry Levin (1941) 1st Edition, Norfolk , CT : New Directions Books. 12mo in mustard cloth, with frontis, binding & hinges tight, soiled dj with edge wear. ***James Joyce by Herbert Gorman (1939) 1st Edition, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 8vo in blind stamped green cloth, frontis with illustrations throughout, binding & hinges tight, darkened dj with edge wear. ***Lectures in America by Gertrude Stein (1935) 1st Edition, NY: Random House. 8vo in brown cloth, with frontis, binding & hinges tight, darkened dj with edge wear. ***Last Opera and Plays by Gertrude Stein, edited by Carl Van Vechten (1949) NY: Rinehart & Co., Inc. 8vo in orange cloth, with frontis, binding & hinges tight, darkened dj. ***Four in America by Gertrude Stein, Introduction by Thornton Wilder (1947) 1st Edition, New Haven: Yale University Press. 8vo in tan cloth, binding & hinges tight, darkened dj with edge wear. All books have foxing on outer page edges and prelims. EST: $60.00 - $150.00
Realized bid price - $160.00 |
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[221] Aine, H, Roux. Herculanum et Pompei Recueil General Des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, Etc. Volumes 1-7 (of 8). Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1870. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. Engraved plates throughout, some folding & double-page. Mismatched bindings, 5 in marbled paper with library cloth backstrips, 2 in library bindings of 3/4 buckram & marbled paper with leather spine labels. A few volumes shaken, one has inner joint split. PAINTINGS OF POMPEI & HERCULANUM. EST: $200.00 - $400.00
Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[222] Schomburgk, Sir Robert H / Taylor, John Edward [Translated by]. Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia, in The South of Europe and in Brazil, With a Voyage Up the Amazon and the Xingu' - 2 Volumes. London: David Bogue, 1849. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. With lithographed frontis and 3 folding coloured maps (maps in vg condition). xvi, 338; v [1] 377pp, bound in original blind stamped green cloth with gilt eagle. Hinges cracked/taped, inner joint split, bumped corners with backstrip wear, occasional light foxing. EST: $400.00 - $600.00
Realized bid price - $210.00 |
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[223] Shaw, Thomas. Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1738. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. With 32 engraved plates, plans and maps on 29 leaves (3 plates on recto and verso), plus a full page of sheet music, title vignette, chapter vignettes, text illustrations, head & tail pieces, and historiated intials. (Comprising 12 maps, plans & table - 5 of which are folding). Half-title, title in red & black, 2 leaves for Dedication, xv, 1 errata, 442pp [2] 60pp, 4 leaves for Index. Bound in leather with gilt border, raised bands on spine, red speckled page edges all around. Front cover detached, back cover starting, occasional foxing, covers worn, backstrip wear. EST: $600.00 - $1,200.00
Realized bid price - $850.00 |
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[224] Adamson, John. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Luis De Camoens - 2 Volumes. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. SCARCE. Frontis in each volume, plus 3 additional plates (one folding). xiv, [2] 310pp; 392pp. Vol I bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, with gilt decorated spine, front cover & 1st signature detached, covers worn & peeling. Vol. II in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. Occasional foxing. EST: $300.00 - $600.00
Realized bid price - $60.00 |
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[225] Audsley, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan - Subscriber's LIMITED EDITION. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good Condition. LIMITED #231/500, with Author's signature on the limitation page. 1883-1884. 2 Volumes, in 6 Parts, in 3 portfolios. Lacks some plates. This does have - 84 plates, of which 52 are chromolithographs, many highlighted with gold. Plates on heavy stock, includes text, unbound as issued, in 3 original illustrated portfolios. Subjects include Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Printing, Embroidery, Textile-Fabrics, Lacquer, Incrusted-Work, and Metal-Work. Pages and plates have some edge chips, library marks on back of plates. EST: $400.00 - $1,000.00
Realized bid price - $425.00 |