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532. The Old Man And The Sea, First Edition by Ernest Hemingway, 1952 New York City, NY Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright 1952 with the "A" and Scribner's colophon below. Original hardcover light blue publishers clothed with silver lettering on spine. Author facsimile signature stamped on front board. 140 pages. Blue tint photograph of Hemingway on back cover of first state dust jacket and no mention of Nobel Prize. 800/1,200 Sold: $632.50 |
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533. Les Batiks De Madame Pangon Monzie, A. De and Yvanhoe Rambosson. Paris: Charles Moreau, Editions D'Art, 1925. Folio, portfolio of cloth-backed, geometric-patterned boards in color. Brightly decorated endpapers in fuchsia, dark green and royal blue repeating flower pattern. Pangon revived Javanese batik dyeing in Paris. Her work combined contemporary with traditional Javanese designs and are illustrated with loose plates of her designs. Eleven plates in color, plates apprx 12-1/4" x 9-3/4". 200/300 Sold: $184.00 |
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534. "Taschenbuch der Reisen oder unterhaltende Darstellung der Entdeckungen des 18 Jahrhunderts, in Rucksicht der Lander Menschen und Productenkunde fur jede Klasse von Lesern" by E.A.W. von Zimmerman Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer d. Jung, 1805. First edition, 283 numbered pages. Illustrated with 9 copper plate engravings including frontispiece, one folding map of North America and a folding plan of Federal City (Washington D.C.). Also includes five folding plates; plates include Portrait of Mico Chlucco, a folding plate of the Mission at Monterey California, a folding plate of two Native Californians, a folding plate of the Virginia Natural Bridge, folding plate of the hills around Monterey California, two folding botanical plates (one of which is a photostat dated circa 1928, laid in) and finally a portrait of Sir Hans Sloane. In original com\ntemporary embossed boards, apprx 5" x 3-1/2". 600/900 |
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535. "Taschenbuch der Reisen oder unterhaltende Darstellung der Entdeckungen des 18 Jahrhunderts, in Rucksicht der Lander Menschen und Productenkunde fur jede Klasse von Lesern" by E.A.W. von Zimmerman Leipzig Fleischer 1808. First edition, 288 numbered pages. Illustrated with 12 plates, large folding map of South America. Contemporary original embossed boards. Deals entirely with Brazil, Chile and Patagonia. The plates: Patagonian giant, Rio De Janeiro, St. Catherines, a Cuandu, and condor, seals, Chileans, penguin hunting, Commodore Bryon in Patagonia, natives. etc. Apprx 5-1/8" x 3-5/8". 600/900 |
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536. "A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXXIV", by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) England, Warrington: printed by W. Eyres, 1774. This is the third edition of Pennant's first volume. Pennant's tour of Scotland preceeded dr. Samuel Johnson's by four years. Contains 388 numbered pages and 21 plates ( 9 fold outs and a fold out map) also 9 extra engraved plates including 3 of Falcons, 1 fish, 1 bird and views. Also contains an engraved frontispiece of "The Admirable Crichton". Faded marbled boards, rebound in comtemporary leather spine with four raised bands and red leather insert with gilt lettering. Apprx 9-1/4" x 7-5/8". Bookplate of "N. Webb, Esq. 24. Portland Place" on front board interior. 400/600 |
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537. Set of Fourteen Updike Bibles Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha (translated out of the original tongues in the year of our lord 1611). R.H. Hinklrey Company. Printed by Merrymount Press, Boston by D.B. Updike. Limited edition: No. 280 of 488 copies. Hand-made laid paper with water mark of RHH with crown and book. Engraved plates after famous paintings with tissue guards. Beveled wood cover and tan calf leather spines with five raised bands. Tops of pages gilded. 300/500 Sold: $356.50 |
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538. A Pair of Illuminated Manuscripts, C.13th Century Pair of leaves from an illuminated 13th Century Bible. Hand written text is black with hand painted decorative details in red and blue ink. Measures apprx 4" x 6". The best known book of the Middle Ages, the Latin Bible's text has survived almost word for word unchanged since early Christian times. The text of the Old Testament goes back to the Jews in Palestine centuries before Christ, and the text of the New Testament was written and assembled in the course of the First Century A.D. This page is from a Thirteenth-Century Bible, a time in which, among other changes, bibles were now produced not only by monks but by professional scribes and craftsmen who made their living from copying, decorating and selling the books. Nearly all surviving manuscripts of the of the Latin Bible belong this century. 150/250 Sold: $235.75 |
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539. Two Incubala Sheets, Italian, Circa 1480 1) Page XXXVII, chapter CXCVIII from "De Sufanna Virgine" with woodcut, lower right. Two columns of 47 lines of text in Latin. Paper measures apprx 11-3/4" x 8-1/2". 2) Page XLIIII, chapter CCXV from "De Oceano", with woodcut, upper right. Two columns of 47 lines of text in Latin. paper measures apprx 11-3/4" x 8-1/2". Both from Epistles of St. Jerome. Ref: Hines History of Woodcutting. 400/600 Sold: $92.00 |
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540. Modes De Paris, 19th Century Bound book of the periodicals containing apprx 95 large hand colored fashion plates, each apprx 11" x 8-1/2". Preceding plates (except for first group) is a two column description of plates, apprx three pages worth including advertising. Marbled covers with 3/4 leather and missing spine, boards detached. Book apprx 11-1/2" x 9", overall. 800/1,200 |
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541. Divine Fancies by Francis Quarles Printed by J.R. for John Williams, at the Crown in Crofs-Keys-Court, in Little Britain 1671. London. The Fifth Edition Corrected. 167 pp. Printed on laid paper. Bound in blue vinyl. Front piece water marked. Cover measures apprx 6"H x 4"W. 100/150 Sold: $51.75 |
