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20th Century Literature, Three Volumes:
Lot: 1Unsold20th Century Literature, Three Volumes: Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, 1920, in blue publisher's cloth with orange printing, spine sunned; John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down, 1942, in a good dust more ...
American History and Kennedys, Six Boxes.
Lot: 2Sold for: $30$30American History and Kennedys, Six Boxes. Including: Zad Rust's Teddy Bare, the Last of the Kennedy Clan, Belmont, MA: Western Islands, [1971], in the dust jacket; Jack Olsen's The Bridge at more ...
Americana Lot: Ephemera and Two Pamphlets.
Lot: 3Sold for: $200$200Americana Lot: Ephemera and Two Pamphlets. Seven printed documents, late 18th and early 19th century, filled out and signed by hand, mostly judgments of the court in Suffolk County; and more ...
Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) Rerum sub Impp. Constantio, Iuliano, Iouiano, Valentiniano & Valente, per xxvj. annos gestarum
Lot: 4Sold for: $200$200Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) Rerum sub Impp. Constantio, Iuliano, Iouiano, Valentiniano & Valente, per xxvj. annos gestarum Historia Libris XVIII. Lyons: Le Preux, 1591. Octavo, with a more ...
Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274) Quaestiones Dispvtatae
Lot: 5Sold for: $650$650Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274) Quaestiones Dispvtatae. Lyons: Rouillium, 1569. Folio, large printer's device on title page, text printed in two columns throughout, bound in full contemporary blind more ...
Art Books, Two Volumes:
Lot: 6UnsoldArt Books, Two Volumes: Richter's The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art, London: Duckworth, 1904; and Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1907, both in publishers' more ...
Atlas of Worcester County Massachusetts from Actual Surveys
Lot: 7Sold for: $225$225Atlas of Worcester County Massachusetts from Actual Surveys. New York: F.W. Beers & Co., 1870. Folio, with ninety-five colored town and village plans of the fifty-eight cities and towns in more ...
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lapland Long-spur
Lot: 8Sold for: $175$175Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lapland Long-spur. Plate CCCLXV, no. 73, Fringilla Laponica, Male spring plumage, male in winter, female; not examined outside of frame, watermark not visible, more ...
Avedon, Richard (1923-2004) An Autobiography
Lot: 9Sold for: $100$100Avedon, Richard (1923-2004) An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1993. Folio, publisher's cloth with acetate dust jacket, 284 black and white images with visual and textual index and a brief more ...
Baldwin, Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer
Lot: 10Sold for: $125$125Baldwin, Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. Octavo, 1364 pages, with the large folding map of the United States pasted inside the front board, more ...
Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) Six Volumes.
Lot: 11Sold for: $60$60Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) Six Volumes. The Gorilla Hunters, London: Patridge, [n.d.]; Digging for Gold, London: Nisbet & Co., [n.d.]; The Young Trawler, London: Nisbet & Co., 1886; The more ...
Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) The Novels.
Lot: 12Sold for: $650$650Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) The Novels. Philadelphia: Barrie & Son, [1896]. Forty-one volumes, translated by Gertrude Fosdick, illustrated, limited edition, number 283 of 1,000, bound in full more ...
Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Works.
Lot: 13Sold for: $250$250Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Works. London: J. M Dent & Co., [1905-1908]. Forty volumes, translated by Clara Bell, with prefaces by George Saintsbury, limited edition numbered 349 of 410, more ...
Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) A General History of Quadrupeds
Lot: 14Sold for: $150$150Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) A General History of Quadrupeds, illus. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Newcastle upon Tyne: Hodgson et al., 1790. First edition, octavo, 456 pages, wood engravings throughout, more ...
Belasco, David (1853-1931) Two copies: A Souvenir of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum T
Lot: 15Sold for: $150$150Belasco, David (1853-1931) Two copies: A Souvenir of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922, New York, printed more ...
Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier (1771-1802) Pathological Anatomy, the Last Course of Xavier Bichat
Lot: 16Sold for: $90$90Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier (1771-1802) Pathological Anatomy, the Last Course of Xavier Bichat. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1827. Octavo, publisher's half cloth and paper boards, worn, leaves more ...
Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890.
Lot: 17UnsoldBlaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890. Two inscribed pages on a single wove paper bifolium. To Charles Randall (1824-1904),member of the House of Representatives more ...
Blunt, Edmund March (1770-1862) The American Coast Pilot.
Lot: 18Sold for: $90$90Blunt, Edmund March (1770-1862) The American Coast Pilot. New York: Edmund Blunt for William Hooker, 1822. Octavo, stated tenth edition, signature of Captain Thomas Higgins on ffep, lacking pages more ...
Book Catalogs, Eleven Volumes:
Lot: 19Sold for: $80$80Book Catalogs, Eleven Volumes: Lord Mostyn's Plays, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Printed Books auction catalogs in three volumes, 1919-1920; Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, more ...
Book Catalogs, Five Volumes:
Lot: 20Sold for: $40$40Book Catalogs, Five Volumes: London: 1801-1833. Bibliotheca Brandiana, 1807, lacking the title page, and all after page 368, in limp cloth wraps; Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice, and Curious more ...
Book Catalogs, Seven Volumes:
Lot: 21Sold for: $100$100Book Catalogs, Seven Volumes: Bound volumes of 19th century book catalogs, including a catalogue of the Reverend Alexander Dyce collection, given to the South Kensington Museum, 1875; part four of more ...
Book Catalogs, Thirteen in Wrappers:
Lot: 22Sold for: $30$30Book Catalogs, Thirteen in Wrappers: miscellaneous 20th century book and auction catalogs in soft paper covers, including the collections of Moss, Leighton, Huntington, and the Earl of Pembroke. more ...
Book Catalogs, Twelve Volumes:
Lot: 23Sold for: $80$80Book Catalogs, Twelve Volumes: Auction catalog of Lord Amherst of Hackney's collection, 1908-09; Catalogue of the Collection of English and French Literature of the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century, more ...
Buchanan, James, British Consul to New York (1772-1851) Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, wi
Lot: 24Sold for: $150$150Buchanan, James, British Consul to New York (1772-1851) Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, with a Plan for their Melioration. New York: Published by William more ...
Burchett, Josiah (1666?-1746) Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and ending in 1697
Lot: 25Sold for: $130$130Burchett, Josiah (1666?-1746) Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and ending in 1697. London: Sold by John Nutt near Stationer's-hall, 1703. Octavo, first more ...
Burgh, James (1714-1775) The Art of Speaking
Lot: 26Sold for: $150$150Burgh, James (1714-1775) The Art of Speaking. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1775. 12mo in 6s, several text leaves torn, last leaf of the index torn with loss; leaves toned throughout, with signs of more ...
Campbell, Thomas (d. 1844) Letters from the South, Written During a Journey to Algiers
Lot: 27Sold for: $50$50Campbell, Thomas (d. 1844) Letters from the South, Written During a Journey to Algiers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. Octavo, first American edition, occasional internal spotting, more ...
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits
Lot: 28Sold for: $150$150Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits. University of California Press, [1983]. Illustrated by Barry Moser, signed by Moser in pencil on the title page, in more ...
Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC),Tibullus (c. 55 BC-19 BC),Propertius (50 BC-15),and Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 BC-c. 26 BC). [Opera]
Lot: 29Sold for: $375$375Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC),Tibullus (c. 55 BC-19 BC),Propertius (50 BC-15),and Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 BC-c. 26 BC). [Opera]. Lyons: Gryphius, 1548. 16mo in 8s, 316 pps., woodcut printer's more ...
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.
Lot: 30Sold for: $175$175Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. trans. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) London: for Osborne, Hitch, Hawes, et al., 1765. 12mo, in four volumes, more ...