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505. Les Chasseurs et la Laitiére... ....A comedy in one act, for Mr. Anseaume. Musical score by Edigio Romualdo Duny (i), (Italian, 1708-1775). Paris, avec privilege du Roy, by Monthulay, 1763. Printed on rag paper and bound with marbled paper boards. 106 numbered papers, not including page 107. Foli size apprx 14" x 10". 150/250 Sold: $69.00 |
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506. The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes New York: The Reviews of Reviews Co. 1911, first edition, hard cover, only 3500 issued, 11" Tall. Black and white photographs throughout all ten volumes. Dark blue covers with gold lettering on spine and brown paper DJ. This massive work tells the story of the Civil War in photographs and presents it from an entirely new viewpoint in chapters that were written by many noted authorities, both North and South. Each photograph is accompanied by scholarly text that identifies the people and situations. Illustrated by Matthew B. Brady and Others. 500/700 Sold: $488.75 |
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507. Modern Scottish Portrait Painters; With An Introductory Essay by Percy Bate Edinburgh, Otto Schulze, 1910. First edition. One of 375 copies, this being numbered 134. book contains 61 plates, all with titled tissue guards. Red cloth boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettered spine and embossed front cover. Gilt top edge. Apprx 11-1/4" x 9". An excellent reference books for any collector of Scottish works. 75/125 Sold: $40.25 |
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508. An Account of the English Dramatick Poets or, Some Observations and Remarks.... by Gerard Langbaine Oxford: Printed by L.L. for George West, and Henry Clements, 1691, first edition. [xvi], 556 (34)pp. with index and appendix and with perpendicular half-title bound at back. 8vo. Full calf with red label with gilt lettering and decoration. 150/250 Sold: $161.00 |
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509. The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates Including Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dress (Hand-Coloured and Heightened with Gold and Silver); Sporting and Coaching Scenes (Hand-Coloured); Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, &c. (many from original copper-plates), by Andrew W. Tuer London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press. 1886/7. 366pp. 37 full page plates including 18 hand colored. Original half gray suede over boards, embroidered title on front boards and spine, with bookmark of similar material as title, small gilt crown stamped on lower part of front boards, with original linen endpapers, decorated with red/blue/green flower pattern, top edge gilt and others uncut. Offered in a handsome leather slipcase with decorated spine in gilt and embossed lettering and five raised bands. book apprx 9-1/4" x 6-1/4", not including slipcase. 200/300 Sold: $172.50 |
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510. "Napoleon in Exile" by Norwood Young and "Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon" by Constant, translated by Walter Clark 1. Philadelphia; John Winston Company, 1st published in 1915. In 3 vol. green buckram with gilt embossed boards. With two colored frontispieces and one hundred illustrations, mainly from the collection of A.M. Broadley. Apoprx 9-1/4"T. 2. Akron; Saalfield Publishing Company, 1915, second edition. In 3 vol., dark blue buckram with gilt lettered spine. Many B/W prints throughout. Apprx 7-1/4"T. 75/125 Sold: $92.00 |
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511. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle New York Limited Editions Club 1950. Fine in Near Very Good slipcase with rubbing and wear. Three octavo volumes (6" x 9-1/8") bound in gilt-stamped quarter black linen and wall-paper sides with a cameo decoration reproducing the section of the wall over the mantel in Mrs. Hudson's chambers at 221B baker Street showing two examples of Sherlock Holmes's prowess in emblazoning the initials of Victoria Regina "in bullet-pocks," with the cameo being a portrait of the shooter smoking his pipe. Containing A STUDY IN SCARLET and THE SIGN OF THE FOUR. The definitive text edited by Edgar Smith with anintroduction by Vincent Starrett. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins with a selective collation of the original illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget, and others, reproduced as sheet-fed photogravures. Copy #285 of 1500. 125/200 Sold: $80.50 |
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512. The Divine Comedy, by Dante and The Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte [Works, Novels]. With Prefaces by Mrs. Humphry Ward and Annotations to Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte by Clement K. Shorter 1. New York: Washington Square Press, (1966). Three volumes, in slipcase. Quarter white cloth, gilt, over paper-covered boards, with glassine wraps. Translated by Louis Biancolli, illustrated by Harry Bennett. 2. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. The Haworth Edition. 7 volumes, 8vo. Complete. Bound in green cloth with gilt decorated titles. Illustrated with photogravure portraits and views. 150/200 Sold: $57.50 |
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513. Memoirs of the Count De Grammont by Anthony Hamilton London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. 12" x 7.75". This is no. 462 of a Limited Edition of 780 printed for England and America. The memoirs of the Chevalier Grammont covering his education and adventures before the Siege of Trino, his subsequent life there and at the Court of Turin, his return to Court of France, then to the English Court, love intrigues, Miss Hamilton, Duke of York etc. etc.xxviii pp prelims, 396 pp including name index. Frontispiece portrait of author and thirty-three etchings by L. Boisson on India paper from original compositions by C. Delort, with tissue guards. Full bound, deckle-edged hand made paper, red cloth with gold blocking to front and spine. 200/400 Sold: $57.50 |
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514. A Widow and her Friends, by Charles Dana Gibson New York; R. H. Russell, London; John Lane, 1901. printed by the J.W. Pratt Company, NY, no. 6 in the series. 39 illustrations and a pictorial cover board with white cloth spine. Folio size. 40/60 Sold: $149.50 |
